Is the Mind really Everything-

The world believes that the mind is everything. But spirituality believes that the mind is nothing. The mind is thought of as a thief in the spiritual world. It is considered as an enemy by spiritual seekers. The mind makes us crave, want, desire; it connects us to the illusion of the world, with things that are unreal. Spiritual seekers believe that we must not think deeper, but go deeper, beyond the mind, to the spirit, to the Atman, to the spirit. For them, spiritual success does not depend on intelligence, but in actually being thoughtless. However, an intelligent mind does help in the realization of the truth of who we truly are - we are not the mind, not the thinker but the power behind the thinker, the spirit, the Atman.