Have you ever felt lost? Overwhelmed by the modern world?
I have. In an age where truth feels elusive and peace of mind seems to come with a tag price, it’s easy to feel adrift. Lately, challenges and thoughts piled up, each one shouting a solution sold by someone else. In the midst of this noise, I found myself reflecting on a simple, ancient piece of wisdom:
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:34)
Read that again. Let it sink in.
It’s a masterclass in mental peace. It’s the foundation of mindfulness. It’s the core of every modern lesson on overcoming anxiety.
And it wasn’t written by a famous guru. It was written down over 2,000 years ago.
It hit me: This is the source. The original manual for being human. The foundational code that every subsequent “expert” has been borrowing from, repackaging, and selling back to us.
And we are buying it. The global wellness market is valued at over $5.6 trillion. Self-help and personal development? That's a $43.77 billion industry alone. We are spending trillions to learn how to live.
And then came the embarrassing, sickening realization: I am a participant in this. I realized that feeling lost, overwhelmed, and anxious was my own mind’s doing—a product of overthinking. I spent days, even weeks, magnifying those feelings until they made me sick. It is sickening to know that I, and nobody else, did that to myself. Thinking about the piled-up cases of problems for days didn’t change the situation. It only magnified the noise, and the desperate need to finally pause.
So here’s the painful, embarrassing question: Were we really so lost and ignorant about how to live that we need to pay for the instructions? Where did we think the ideas of “living” and “lifestyle” came from?
Matthew 6:34 is the core of a thousand-dollar mindfulness course. Yet it’s free. Simple yet profound.
And it’s embarrassing to accept that these two sentences from a 2,000-year-old manual are what I needed to free up my mind. That I may have the chance to grab a peace of mind, for this moment, without a tag price.
And it feels so good. It declutters my mind. For now.
And tomorrow? The manual’s instruction is clear: “it will take care of itself.” So I am now accepting the full responsibility—and the incredible freedom—to live life each day. The trouble for today is today. Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Tonight, I’m not offering you a seven-step plan. I’m offering you a single, quiet question to take with you.
As you turn off the light and your head hits the pillow, ask yourself this:
What if the peace I’ve been searching for isn’t a secret to be bought, but a truth to be remembered?
Don’t try to answer it. Just let it linger. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. And rest.
We’ll talk more tomorrow.
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