You cannot lose your mind. Mind is a function of Consciousness, your essential being. Mind is the activity of Consciousness … ripples on a pond. The brain processes these ripples into experiences that all those who share a brain understand and agree to label this and that. You cannot lose your mind, for Consciousness is the ground of all being. The brain can go a bit haywire now and then, causing the ripples to be processed and interpreted a bit differently than others are processing the same ripples. But never fear, you are this Consciousness, focusing for a while on a specific pattern of ripples that in your shared awareness as humans being you have agreed to call “me” and “you.”
The ripples are what connect you to and with all others. They are your heritage. They are your make-up, your connective tissue. These patterns known as “me” and “you” can never be lost, which is why Love—understood to be lack of separation—never dies.
You are so very loved.
I have mixed feelings and some confusion about one’s mind being always sane. My brother and I looked after our mother for the last 8 years of her life. If she wasn’t insane, she did an excellent imitation of being evil and nasty. If so, I’d want nothing to do with her in my sojourn beyond the veil.
When our mind consciously chooses and internalizes its (his/her) focus on ‘self,’ in a constant effort, the ego tends to take advantage of the “brilliant” position, thereby avoiding the connective web to the “Outside world” as being a integral part and force to recon with, and be reconned by, for the immense value and importance of the immense connection. Letting your ego focus thusly on ‘self’ will eventually stare back at you, by yourself.
On the other hand, internalizing our focus to actually look inward at our single-eyed judgements of others and of ourselves, will not nearly as likely present ego with the same volatile situation of being the brick wall that signals “i am the only one that is right.”
To determine what our focus directive is doing, will surely develop ripples according to the weight of what you dropped into the well of your mind.
How important is YOUR focus?