The mind wants us to stay in our place because often our current place is a place of subordination to the mind. There are times when we often resist change and that’s because our mind in our present situation has control over our lives. It controls the kind of desires we entertain, the kind of desire that we follow and the kind of life that we lead, which keeps us under the mind’s metaphorical thumb where we are overall controlled by it. When change is actually a challenge to the mind’s unquestioned authority on us, then that change is good: good for us as souls and good for our contribution to the world at large.

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06.06 For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.