Mind vs Heart v3

Once I drove a car for almost 12 hours along with my family members and finally reached home. Now, it was time to take the luggage from the car and carry it inside. My family was even more tired than I was and not in the mood to carry the luggage, so it naturally fell on me to do it. A traditional thought immediately came to my mind: I have done so much so far, now let others do it. It is very logical and nobody can deny that.

As I have been exploring and trying to integrate spirituality into daily activities, I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and sat in silence for a while. Then a thought flashed in my mind: you have energy to carry the luggage, so carry it. What is the doubt? That’s true. I generally refer to the voice I hear when I sit in silence as the voice of the heart.

The mind always measures, calculates, and tries to balance the number of actions taken by people. It always asks, why should I do it when others are not doing? But from the heart’s point of view, if you can do it, just do it. Why bother about logic**?

People have different abilities, and we should go by those capabilities rather than constantly comparing who has done more. If I have more energy, I do more; if I have less, I do less. What truly matters is to assess ourselves honestly and strive to live up to our own capabilities, instead of measuring our worth against others. The urge to compare—the mental tally of everyone’s actions—is driven by ego, which leads only to frustration and limitation. True growth begins when we step away from comparison and focus on genuine self-assessment.

In a similar way, in the office, it usually happens that the person who does more work gets recognized or awarded. On the surface, this seems fair, but if we look deeper, it may not actually be so fair. For example, some domains or fields get the spotlight while many others are pushed into the background. So, those who already have skills in these domains in spotlight shine easily, but people from other domains are often forced to shift into these new areas just because those are in demand now. Naturally, they cannot deliver the same amount of work as someone who is already skilled in that area. This kind of factor is almost never considered by the mind in its calculations, but the heart definitely takes it into account. In fact, people from different domains who make the effort to support what the world currently needs by working outside their domains actually deserve more encouragement, since they are sacrificing their own expertise to help meet the present need.

Appendix:

**Sometimes, the heart may say, don’t do it. On the surface, we cannot find any logic, but deep within, it may have its own logic which the human mind cannot understand. It may tell you to do or not do something, not just based on the visible number of actions taken by people but depending on the need. For example, if another person is tired, it may ask you to carry as you still have energy, or it may ask you not to carry if the other person is trying to escape responsibility. This is just scratching the surface—it considers innumerable factors that cannot be imagined by the human mind.