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A busy mind is a strained and closed mind. It belongs to a person who is unavailable—a station that is transmitting but not receiving. How can it? It is simply too busy.

Emotionally unavailable people are not all narcissists (a recently overused term that is being watered down even by modern psychology); rather, they are people who cannot find quiet within themselves. They are constantly transmitting. You can sense it when you are in a conversation with them. It is almost as if they have a “fast-forward” button held down while you speak because they haven’t turned off the internal stream of consciousness in their heads.

In that state, there is no room for you. There is no room for new thoughts or ideas—ideas that aren’t really “new” at all, but remain unheard because the individual cannot listen. They cannot receive. Someone habitually in “transmit mode,” even in silence, is often an overthinker. While the world might tell them they are intelligent to feed their ego, true peace does not find this state intelligent at all. Peace is the intelligence. It does not need ours; it is given to us equally, and we decide what to do with it and with whom we choose to share it.