Either it serves us, or, by worshiping it, we end up serving it.
When we become slavishly devoted to the dictates of our rational mind, we abdicate our higher, intuitive faculties, relinquish our self-mastery and lose our freedom to inquire, to challenge and to create.
Under the direction of our higher consciousness, however, our rational mind becomes a brilliant and powerful resource that serves us well, enabling us to accomplish great things that benefit us and our world.