The sages of yore knew that the mind is an instrument which can bind man or release him from bondage. One has to understand its ways, as well as its potentialities. You must learn how to wield it, rather than yield to it. It is the mind that weaves the pattern called the 'I'. It constructs notions of pleasure and pain, of joy and grief, and a whole array of urges and impulses. It resists all attempts to escape into the Eternal, the Universal, the Absolute. It protests when the individual is eager to become conscious of his true identity; but when it finds determined opposition to its tactics, it surrenders and disappears.

- BABA