Vachon Imagined

When a person cannot be still, they are often too attached to something—the need to go, to move, to act, but not to simply be.

Being is where foundation lives. It is the place in humanity where all things touch and reveal themselves. Judgment does not live here; wholeness does. It is the point where what appears separate is experienced as one. It always was, but perhaps not to us.

I believe we come into this world whole in our perception of life and whole with it. Over time, we are conditioned by thoughts, moods, and feelings until we begin to mistake them for who we are.

This morning I was praying for my son before he left for school. As we often do, I reminded him to be still. I understand he is a child, and people may dismiss that as impossible or unrealistic at his age. But stillness is not the absence of movement—it is the capacity to receive.

Discipline can be taught early. Not just discipline to act, but discipline to receive. Discipline to be still enough to listen.

When we cannot receive without judgment, or without the constant noise moving through us, we become smaller. We become “people” in the narrow sense—defined, reactive, divided—rather than the larger beingness of life itself that receives and gives what it is ready to hold, and what it is ready to hear.