We Are All Love
The mind is deeply sensitive to its environment. Whatever scenario we place it in, it autoscales its capacity. Put it in a high-pressure situation, and it speeds up. Show it something beautiful, and it feels happy. Surround it with loved ones, and it calms down—the list goes on. The point is simple: the mind constantly seeks an anchor. It is in its very nature to hold onto something. Long before modern neuroscience confirmed this, our scriptures and the Upanishads noted the same fundamental truth—the mind is inherently restless. Unless we have transcended the mind completely (as ancient masters claim to have done), it will always be anchored to something. The least noisy state it can achieve is deep meditation, where the noise drops to its lowest volume—though it remains, for a moment, still a mind. My goal here isn’t to dissect the vast universe of the mind or pretend to understand all its phenomena. My focus is on that deep meditative state where we anchor ourselves to silence—or to ...