Thoughts will always arise. That is the nature of the mind. Trying to force them away only creates more noise, more resistance, more frustration.
In Buddhism, the practice is not suppression but observation. You sit, you watch, you notice. Thoughts come, thoughts go. And slowly, you realize something powerful.
You are not your thoughts.
You are the awareness behind them.
When you stop reacting to every thought, they lose their grip. The mind becomes quieter, not because thoughts disappear, but because you are no longer pulled by each one.
Peace is not the absence of thinking. It is the freedom from being controlled by what you think.
And in that space, clarity begins.