Stop for a minute and listen to yourself. If the sound that you hear is cacophonous, deafening, clamorous. If it makes you clench your teeth. If it makes you react like you are facing a tiger on your path, then you are listening to the mind.
Try this experiment for just one second. Stop everything, just for a moment. All the worries all the concerns, let them go. Just drop the noise. You can always pick it up later. Now, suddenly, everything goes quiet. It is like dying. It is like giving up and letting go.
This is wisdom. It is the opposite of giving up. It is what it feels like to really live. It is the correct read on what is happening. Listen to it. It is calm, it is peaceful, it is unthreatened – remarkably powerful and unperturbed. You can always go back to the noise and the tension but try not to forget that this is what really lies behind the sound and the fury. This is the real seat of power, this is the departure point for any real advance. This is the place that all creativity comes from. This is who you are.
Whenever you want to, you can be that person -- the one you really are. The one you have never stopped being. That which persists long after all the noise of this world has died. Whenever you get tired of all the noise and all the betrayal and all the fear in the world of the mind -- the land where The Mind is king -- you can always come home to what is real…and rest there.
