Until I reached a certain level of spiritual development, I never realized how many compulsive thoughts I was exposed to. It seemed perfectly normal to me. In the West especially, we use the mind like an addiction—constantly thinking. Rarely did I touch or even approach the power of presence, except when I was meditating or in specific moments, like when I practiced sports. In those moments, I attributed the calm to meditation or to the sport itself, unaware that those brief instances were actually consciousness reconnecting with itself.
The endless cycle of thought
I spent long hours ruminating over the past or the future. Who would I be if not remembering my wounds? And who would I be without anticipating the future, hoping it might bring some light to my supposedly dark present? This constant mental noise was my normal reality, and I didn’t realize how much it shaped my experience of life.
Only years later, when I began my spiritual path, did I become truly aware of this compulsive thinking. Though we often label this journey as “spiritual” in commercial terms, at its core, it is a return home. A home that never really left us — we simply abandoned it temporarily to explore and experiment.
Coming home: the sweet return
The return is a sweet experience because now we know where we come from. It’s comforting to know—not just intellectually but deeply and empirically—that we have always been part of the whole. That we never truly were alone.
All the stories and creations born in our ego mind cannot destroy the beauty that we are. In essence, time does not exist for the soul, and it is the ego that fears its own destruction through time.
The ego’s illusion and the power of love
Why would consciousness bring us into a world of suffering only to destroy us? It makes no sense when we are held by a love so profound that even our ego cannot accept it. For the ego, love is only real if it comes through exchange, manipulation, lack, or attachment.
When I speak of being held by love, I mean the very same love that makes a seed become a fruit — the love that has implanted this wisdom deep inside your mind, waiting for you to begin experiencing it for yourself.
Faith beyond the mind
The greatest challenge is faith. Trying to reach this truth with the mind alone keeps us trapped in the mind. We must open our hearts and surrender to a reality greater than our limited human thoughts.
Control does not come from our mental constructs, but from the being itself — the place where true transformation lives. Here lies the power to free us from the masks we wear: our age, nationality, circumstances — all chosen for a reason, yet all meant to be transcended.
Practicing the silence of no mind
Life is movement, and within that movement, we can find moments of stillness — moments of no mind.
Try this: for a few seconds, invite yourself into the silence where the mind ceases its endless chatter. In that silence, you will find your true home, even if only briefly.
When you feel trapped in a relentless cage of thoughts, return to the no mind. In those moments, you strip the ego of its past and future fears. The ego, attached to the physical and time, fears when you stop thinking.
A call to experience
I invite you to explore this moment of no mind in your own life. Start with seconds of silence, presence, and surrender. Let the ego’s grip loosen, and feel the freedom of returning home to your true self.
Because the journey is not about escaping the mind — it’s about discovering the vastness beyond it, the space where love, peace, and transformation dwell.