You are being lied to.
Not by them.
Not by some shadowy group.
By the quiet belief that you still need an authority to stand on.
There’s a phase where frameworks save you.
Teachers save you.
Tribes save you.
Religion.
David.
Warrior.
Culture.
Politics.
Left. Right.
All of it can be medicine.
Until it isn’t.
At some point, even the things that worked start to feel tight.
Not wrong — just finished.
That’s the moment most people panic and start herd hopping.
New banner.
New certainty.
Same outsourcing.
But there’s another move.
You stop hopping.
You stop borrowing.
You stop explaining.
And you listen — not to a voice out there,
but to the quiet, undeniable alignment you can feel in your body
when everything drops away.
When you’re done outsourcing truth,
you’re finally ready.
Not for a new system.
Not for a new leader.
For yourself.