Your hand is useful because it goes where you want it to go. Similarly, your mind is only useful if it goes where you want it to go.

The moment you disidentify yourself from everything, the mind will become still.  

Devotion means keeping your intellect aside to let a larger intelligence function through you.

Once you are trapped in your mental framework, there is no space to experience life in its full glory.

Your mind is not your own. It is a complex amalgamation of all kinds of influences. The more you are identified from it, the further away you are from yourself.