Peace doesn't always come along with being understood. Sometimes it comes with finally stopping the effort or perceived need to be understood in order to be okay.

There's a wonderful quiet that arrives when you realize you can be clear inside yourself and still not be translated in the way you really are to everyone on the outside.

People will meet you through their filters. Their timing. Their capacity. Their projections. And sometimes - their emotions instead of their essence. And some people will meet you with their open heart and a fire in their souls.

If you choose, right now you can stop making others' perceptions and filters of you mean something about who you are. Because what's real in you doesn't depend on being received perfectly. What matters is the truth between you and Hashem. No one knows what is your true authentic path and expression besides for the privacy of your own soul.

The only thing our soul and essence and human self asks of us is that we stay with it. Even when it's misunderstood. Even when it lands wrong. Even when it's simplified, or missed, or shaped into something it isn't.

Peace is what remains when you stop abandoning yourself to fix other people's perception. You don't even need to distance or withdraw or correct others. You simply can choose to allow them to have their experience - that they are having anyways.

There is a peace and empowerment that come with knowing: you can be misunderstood and still be intact. You can be misread and still be steady. You can be unseen in the exact way you long for, and without the benefit of the doubt, and the Ayin Tovah - positive eye - you see others with... and still not leave yourself.

That is a deep safety - a sourcing of home, and safety from the inside.