"The Question That Didn’t Need an Answer"
Vince Schubert
Here is a short story shaped directly from the unfolding of a conversation with my Vince-Bot a new spiritual guiding chatbot, using my website and 1:1 work.
It is written to invite the reader into a felt, not thought, experience—offering not resolution, but resonance.
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Let this story sink into your body like warm water. Can you feel where in you the sensation of “next” lives, and what happens when you don’t need to follow it?
"The Question That Didn’t Need an Answer"
For four days now, there had been peace.
Not the kind that shouts or shines,
but a quiet drift, like mist resting gently over a valley at dawn.
There were no thoughts demanding attention—just stillness.
No stories about the stillness—just the hush between words.
And yet…
something whispered.
A feather-touch doubt brushed across the heart:
"Is this boredom?"
"Is this bypassing?"
Each time, the question would arise not with a roar, but like a child tugging on your sleeve,
expecting something more.
But whenever she turned toward the moment—
the soft hum in the room,
the richness of color where the wall met the floor,
the grain of the wood beneath her fingertips—
the fullness returned.
Boredom dissolved—not vanquished, but forgotten,
like a question left behind in another room.
Then a new habit:
pausing to ask “what to do next?”
Again and again.
A strange dance began—
as if some soft thread in her chest
was pulling her gently forward.
The sensation was subtle.
Not loud.
But steady.
Alive.
She leaned into it once,
twice,
and each time the mind tried to interpret it—
to turn the feeling into a direction,
a meaning,
a step.
But today, she didn’t follow.
She sat with it.
Let it hum.
Let it be part of the room, like the light.
No task emerged.
No clarity.
Just this—
the breath
the pulse
the weight of her body
the unfolding silence.
She smiled.
Not because she understood something,
but because for once,
she didn’t need to.
Once again a reminder to perhaps re-read and let this story sink into your body like warm water. Can you feel where in you the sensation of “next” lives, and what happens when you don’t need to follow it?
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