Vachon Imagined

Inner peace can feel like picking up a Rubik’s Cube for the very first time. You turn it over in your hands, studying all the colors, wearing that familiar expression of, Huh? You twist one side, then another. Maybe something lines up. Maybe it doesn’t. Perhaps you’re one of those rare people who solves it on the first try. Good for you.

Most of us don’t.

So we do what people have always done. We look for someone who knows more than we do. In the modern world, maybe that’s ChatGPT, YouTube, or a Rubik’s Cube master who promises to show us the path. For a while, it works. We borrow their certainty until one day we surpass the teacher, notice an error, or discover that their answer no longer satisfies the question living inside us.

And just like that, we’re back where we started.

Seeking.

Trying.

Believing that one more answer will finally quiet the mind.

The inner world and the outer world work together. What you think, what you fear, what you love, what you defend—these are not created by the world. The world simply reveals them. It was already here. You didn’t place your despair into it. You came alive to your despair through it.

You become aware of your need to be right, your need for certainty, your need to stand on firm ground waving a flag that declares your sovereignty, your identity, your superiority. Yet every flag eventually frays. Time wears it down until it returns to the very fabric from which it came.

Perhaps we do the same.

Inner peace is unlike anything else we pursue because it isn’t something to master. It is something we become through surrender.

You can sit within your inner world as it appears in the outer world and simply be okay. You are no longer arguing with what you see or searching endlessly for someone to heal you. Life begins doing what it has always done. It reveals. It softens. It transforms.

And let me tell you, it is magic.

More magical than any guru, any wizard, or any genius. Greater than any riddle ever solved.

Because it is already here.

Freely given to the one who is willing to be with the world without mistaking it for eternity itself.