By admin 
There is a movement that often happens inside the human mind all day long.
It is almost like a ping-pong game….back and forth…back and forth.
Open a phone and the mind is instantly flooded: Bombardments in Iran.
The Epstein files. Corruption, blackmail networks, powerful men protecting powerful men. Billionaires chasing extreme experiences. Stories of abuse or greed. Institutions that once claimed moral authority, the Churches look (again?) powerless in the middle of it all…..
The mind scrolls.
And scrolls.
And scrolls again.
Each new piece of dark information pulls attention like gravity.
This is what we could call “mental addiction.”
An addiction to the emotional charge around it….
The ego thrives on that charge. It feeds on the constant analysis of who is guilty, who is corrupt, who is lying, who should be punished. It keeps the mind busy judging the world, measuring the damage, predicting the next disaster.
Meanwhile something else quietly disappears:
S i l e n c e … S t i l l n e s s
When was the last moment the mind simply rested without reacting to something…without another headline, another theory, another wave of collective outrage ?
The ego has a simple strategy: keep the mind occupied with the endless noise of the outside world so it never discovers the quiet beneath it.
<<Close your eyes…pretend that your inner eyes suddenly notice a point of light standing beside all the noise, all the chaos. Focus on it for a moment. Feel the strength, the calm, the stillness arising…
Not the stillness of pretending the world is fine. Not the stillness of hiding from this so called ‘reality’ like an ostrich putting its head in the sand. But something very different : a moment when the mind steps back from the endless stream of stimulation and simply becomes quiet enough to observe what is happening….just look, notice, see..this world is not Reality. I am the Son of God dreaming about separation. I am the observer. And the observer of the world is not the noise of the world, is not the drama, is not the chaos.>>
This is the stillness that spiritual traditions have pointed to for thousands of years, and that A Course in Miracles describes as the place where the Voice for God can be heard:
A steady inner clarity that says: peace has not disappeared, even when the world seems totaly chaotic.
From that stillness the mind stops reacting compulsively. The addiction to outrage loosens its grip. The need to emotionally consume every new piece of darkness begins to fade.
At this point you begin to see the world more clearly, not less clearly, because a quiet mind is not blind.
It simply refuses to let the ego turn the suffering of the world into a form of mental entertainment.
The ping-pong movement inside the mind continues, of course. The world keeps shouting for attention, and sometimes the mind will still be pulled into the noise.
But once you recognize the pattern, it changes. You know there is another place to return to.
The silent stillness.
And in a world that is constantly addicted to noise, that quiet place inside the mind may be one of the most powerful things a human being can rediscover.
With love and light,
G.