When the Servant Becomes the Tyrant 🕯️

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." — Marianne Williamson

I used to think my mind was the answer to everything.

"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."

Plan better. Think harder. Rationalize faster.
Stack enough ideas, arguments, blueprints, and life will finally behave.

But the mind is tricky.

“When you let the intern run the company.”

It’s brilliant at solving problems it invents.
It’s a master at predicting catastrophes that will never happen.
It spins itself into a hurricane and then tells you the only way out is more wind.

And if you don't catch it…
If you don't notice who's actually steering the ship…
You start living in reaction to your own projections instead of reality.

The mind wasn’t designed to lead.

It was designed to serve.

To problem-solve. To analyze. To help.
But it needs orders. It needs a deeper authority behind it. A conscious captain, not a reflexive prisoner.

If you let the mind rule, it will protect you into paralysis.
It will guard you into a prison and call it safety.

You don't have to silence your mind.

You have to le…