If you consider architecture the creation of structure, would then stillness not be the process of building?
The architect reviews, considers, and then envisions.
The architect creates the framework from which something can come into this world blending functionality and aesthetics.
The physical exertion to bring into this world a material manifestation of this design is then the building and labour required for the realisation of the vision.
In human existence, the time when we plan, research, experiment and question with regards to the flow and direction of our life, is this not architecture?
Life, however, remains fluid and constant without the clearly defined lines of design / plan / prepare / build.
Narratives overlap. Ideas are born on top of other plans, converge and then diverge at different times and at different stages of their maturity.
How we adapt to these changes is created in the space set aside for absorption.
Or put more simply, change is absorbed in our moments of stillness.
In this time the building blocks are cemented into place giving us the strength and stability to move to the next level of our growth with steady feet and a sure mind.
Stillness allows the function and aesthetic to meld and become entwined in our inner fabric.
Even at our quietest, we may be making the biggest changes because we are allowing change to happen to us.
