Vachon Imagined

The world operates in balance, and our minds often do the same. If someone is always giving, they will often find themselves in relationship with someone who does not. We attract not only what we are, but also what we have gone blind to through judgment, attachment, or simple preference.

Balance is essential to making good decisions for yourself. If someone is taking advantage of you, dismissing you, or judging you, your body often knows long before your mind is willing to admit it. It is always communicating with you, always offering information. Yet many of us spend our lives persuading ourselves away from what we already know.

Truth is both universal and personal. There are truths that belong to all of us, and there are truths that belong only to our own experience. Wisdom lies in learning to recognize the difference.

When you know who you are in this world and beyond it—within this dimension and whatever may exist beyond it—you no longer need endless justification for your decisions. You move with greater ease because you are no longer asking others to tell you what is true for you.

The decisions that arise from this knowing are the right decisions for your life. They may challenge others. They may disappoint expectations or disturb familiar patterns. But the reactions of others are not yours to carry. Their disappointment, approval, resistance, or misunderstanding belongs to them.

Your responsibility is not to manage another person’s response. Your responsibility is to remain honest with yourself.

What belongs to you, carry. What belongs to another, return.

There is peace in knowing the difference.