Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over. Eckhart Tolle
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

The instrument has taken you over.” This quote talks about how the mind can be harmful if left unsupervised to wander around in your head without any purpose. When we are constantly thinking about our problems and obsessing over them, we often forget to do other things that are far more important than our problems.

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