The Mind Does Not Understand What the Heart Experiences

You can try translating it, of course, but it is just a translation

As time rolls by and I continue noodling on this wonderful opportunity to live a conscious life, I am increasingly realizing that the mind has very little capacity to understand what the heart knows.

The heart experiences joy, gratitude, love, and the peace that passes all understanding while the mind, like some kind of over-caffeinated 11:00 news anchor with bad hair, tries to report what it thinks the heart has just experienced.

Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. No can do.

The mind does not have access to the realm of the heart, nor does it have the language, no matter how educated it may be.

And this, my friends, is one of the great plays of life — what Mark Twain once described as the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

All of us, at least once in our lives, have experienced the ineffable grandeur of existence —a moment of pure transcendence — even if the catalyst for what we experienced was completely different.

You may already know this, but trying tell anyone about your off-the-grid experience has a tendency to come up short.