"Be unassuming. Otherwise, you'll cry."

Manifesto of the Quiet Mind

Me — i.e, jpenseur
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Manifesto of the Quiet Mind


I write, not to be known,

but to remember that I exist.


I choose silence as a language—

not absence, but precision.

Not cowardice, but clarity.

To speak only when the soul speaks first.


I walk behind my words,

letting them go ahead of me like lanterns.

Let the world read them.

Let none know the hand that lit them.


I am not here for the noise.

I am here for the spaces between it.

For the breath between thoughts.

For the ache that cannot be named.


I reject the stage.

I stand in the margins.

There, I find more truth

than applause could ever offer.


This is not retreat.

This is resistance.

A refusal to be reduced

to what can be marketed, explained, or liked.


I will write until the silence

feels seen.


And when I am gone,

I will have left behind

nothing but a voice

that asked nothing

but to be heard by those

still listening.

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