There are people in this world who feel everything very deeply.
Just like I do…
To many, these people seem too emotional, too sensitive.
“Don’t be so dramatic.”
“Get yourself under control.”
“Pull yourself together.”
“Don’t get carried away.”
It’s as if feeling itself is a mistake, a weakness. But it isn’t.
It is often believed that crying over the suffering in the world is a sign of ignorance — that an enlightened mind should remain unmoved in the face of war, death, or grief. But that is not true either.
Those who think this have seen only one half of the truth.
The mind has awakened, but the heart has not.
There is silence, but it does not breathe love.
True enlightenment is not an escape from the human experience, but the full embrace of it.
It excludes nothing — not pain, not loss, not tears.
It looks at suffering and sees that, in essence, it is a dream, yet it does not turn away.
It allows it to flow through, without resistance.
For as long as the heart has not awakened, enlightenment remains empty.
You can understand everything, see through everything, but if you cannot feel, the light becomes cold.
There may be calm — but no warmth.
Silence — but no embrace.
When consciousness descends into the heart, silence becomes love.
Not the romantic love of the “I”, but the quiet, all-embracing love that excludes nothing.
Then you can look at war, at a dying child, at pain — and feel it all without drowning in it.
What cries within you is not the ego.
It is the Divine recognizing itself.
That is not weakness.
That is power.
The power of an open heart.
Yet a pure heart is often misunderstood.
Those who truly love hold up a mirror — and that mirror reveals everything that is not yet free.
People who cannot feel call such a heart weak or naïve.
Not out of malice, but out of fear.
For real love asks for surrender — for the release of control and self-protection.
True enlightenment is empty and full at the same time.
Silent and alive.
Aware and feeling.
The world says: “Don’t feel so much.”
“Don’t go too deep.”
But love says: “Feel everything.” And be free…
Crying for the world is not a sign of ignorance.
It is remembering who you truly are.
It is the Divine within you remembering itself.
A heart that open — that can hold and see everything — is not weak.
It is more powerful than the mind or logic will ever comprehend.
That Heart has been prepared to serve as an instrument of God.
Rani Savitri