The gap exists between here and now and the future we envision and imagine. The gap is kept alive by two things caused by our need to control: desire and impatience. They are the creators of perceived lack not real lack. Because lack is just the imaginary gap between here and now, and the desired outcome. This lack is actually nothing else but a lack of trust. Trust in the greater good, in the divine, in purpose. Nature’s dynamics we are part of. Nature takes care of us if we dare to flow along with her rhythms. She cannot take care of us if we follow artificial rhythms that cause stress and burnout – (perceived) lack of time.
This gap is very necessary to show us one thing about ourselves, individually and collectively. It shows us why the world is as it is today, and why we co-created it that way. Our urge to fill the gap.
We see it everywhere. Nations go to war to close the gap between how the world is and how they believe it should be. The start-up world runs on it: urgency, acceleration, the next round of funding to close the gap between vision and reality, burning through people and resources along the way. The investment world packages it into returns and projections, selling the future as if it were already here, as if the gap could be bought closed. We see it in how we relate to our own bodies: the gap between how we look and how we think we should look, feeding an industry built entirely on the promise of closing that distance. And we see it in relationships: the gap between who the other person is and who we need them to be, so we shape, adjust, withdraw, perform. All of it the same pattern. All of it the urge to fill what feels unbearable to leave open. The unbearable created by our own fears and insecurities.
The fun thing here is that the gap is not real. It just exists as a mental construct between here and the desired state. As long as we are not okay and accepting of how it is here and now, we reinforce the pattern of lack and impatience. Every time we are trying to force the desired, we fail the test. We cannot see that the gap is an imagination that does not exist when we are truly here and now. We cannot see that we are trying to control the outcome because we are unable to trust life.
This happens unconsciously, until we see the pattern and the dynamic. Then, we cannot unsee it and we see it happening everywhere. No matter which story is playing out in our reality, individually or collectively, it has this pattern at its base. In order to compensate for our fears of survival and fears of not being good enough, we start to realize that the impatience and mistrust causing the pattern is actually the impatience and mistrust we have with ourselves. With our own personal process of transcending those fears.
We do not think we can do it, so we reinforce the controlling compensation mechanism. To have peace for a while until the pattern comes back. The mechanisms are plenty. The fighters work harder, perform harder, try harder, push harder, control harder. The flighters escape to numb themselves, be it with alcohol and drugs, with quitting and go somewhere else, with therapies, retreats, meditation…. whatever helps to make that pain go away.
What none of them realize, is that all of this does not transcend the pattern. It calms it down in the moment, but it resurfaces around the next corner. That is just how synchronicity works. You always align with your own patterning you are radiating out. What none of them realize is that this is a hidden control mechanism to manage the situation. This way, there is no true surrender to what is. To the pain. To the fear. To not having a solution. To trust that everything is already there, that there is no gap because the only real moment ever is here and now. If we are here and now, there cannot be any gap. If we truly trust in the way the universe and nature work, there is no lack, and there is no impatience. Instead of listening to our mind and its dramatic projections, we need to connect to our intuition. Our intuition is what is connected to the intelligence of nature and the universe in real time. It is nothing you think, it is a truth you feel inside.
We meet another great paradox: In order to change the world to what we desire, we need to let go of it. All we need to do is feel what it makes us feel. No method can help us overcome that gap. The only way to transcend it is by feeling the pain and the emotion that comes with it. Embracing it as a messenger that has a very important message for us: Stop hurting yourself by running against that outside wall. Look inside, find your own rhythm, your own purpose, your own divine spark. All you need to be is yourself, and life starts flowing in miraculous ways. The more you love and accept yourself, the less you need to be someone else or be somewhere else; and the closer you are to your intuition.
This is where it gets interesting. Because this is not only a personal process. It is the process. The same gap that drives a person to burnout drives a civilization to consume its own planet. The same impatience that makes us force a relationship makes us force growth where the soil is not ready. The same fear that keeps an individual running keeps entire systems accelerating toward collapse. It scales. It always scales. The pattern does not care whether it plays out in one body or in the body of humanity.
Which means the reverse is also true. When one person stops. When one person truly stops and sits in the gap without filling it, without fixing it, without fleeing from it, something shifts that is not only personal. It is not a metaphor. It is how fields work. One person in true surrender changes the frequency of every room they walk into, every conversation they are part of, every system they touch. Not by doing. By being. The gap closes not because we filled it, but because we stopped believing it was real.
That is the beginning. Not of a better version of the same world. Of a different one entirely.
-Vera Ingeborg Schaller 6th of April 2026