Vachon Imagined

The up is the down—a fantastic paradox because it explains so much about you and your destiny. Not destiny as a solidified path carved into stone, but as a circular relationship between you and the divine, the finite and the infinite.

Whenever we call out to something, we are calling out to a part of the divine—or perhaps to the whole. Yet “whole” is not quite the right word, because the mind imagines a thing with edges, boundaries, and completion. The divine is less a whole than an existence itself.

Seeing things that see you is a wonderful way to acknowledge the life within you and the life before you. It cannot happen without you; it can only happen with you. That is how life expresses itself. The out is in the in. The up is in the down.

As human beings, possessing intelligence and participating in that intelligence, we have the peculiar ability to name things before they name us. Or perhaps, as I was reminded while reading a fellow writer’s post this morning, we only imagine we are naming them first.

Imagine looking out at an object. Any object. The moment you notice it, a relationship exists. Name it, and the relationship deepens. There is a connection—a reaching. You reach toward it, and in some mysterious way, it reaches toward you. The relationship was already there before the name arrived.

This is why those who say they do not want a relationship are often fooling themselves. They are already in one. A relationship with themselves. A relationship with the world. A relationship with whatever holds the container of existence itself.

The up being the down. The in being the out.

The one thing we cannot escape while inhabiting a body is relationship. And strangely, it is also the very thing that helps us let go of the body. For relationship reminds us that we were never isolated to begin with. We were always participating in something larger, something that is looking back at us even as we look upon it.