You say you can steer your ship as its rightful captain. It is the thief, the pirate, who says so. Sri Ramana Maharshi explains in "Who am I?" that the root of the mind is the "I" thought.
[Our] mind is only [a multitude of] thoughts. Of
all [the countless thoughts that are formed in our
mind], the thought ‘I’ alone is the root [base, foun
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dation or origin]. [Therefore] what is called ‘mind’
is [in essence just this root thought] ‘I’.
What rises in this body as ‘I’, that alone is [our]
mind. ... Of all the thoughts that appear [or arise]
in [our] mind, the thought ‘I’ alone is the first
thought.
Only after this rises do other thoughts
rise. Only after the first person appears do the sec
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ond and third persons appear; without the first
person the second and third persons do not exist.
And from "Reality in forty verses":
If that first person [our mind], [which experiences
itself] as ‘I am [this] body’, exists, the second and
third persons will [also seem to] exist. If, by our
investigating the truth of the first person, the first
person ceases to exist, the second and third per
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sons will [also] come to an end, [and the reality of]
the first person, which [always] shines as one [the
one non-dual absolute reality, which alone remains
after the dissolution of these three false persons],
will be [then discovered to be] our [true] state,
[our real] self.
Since the thought ‘this body composed of flesh is
I’ is the one string on which [all our] various thoughts
are attached, if [we] go within [ourself scrutinis-
ing] ‘who am I? what is the place [the source from
which this fundamental thought ‘I am this body’
rises]?’, [all] thoughts will disappear, and within
the cave [the core of our being] self-knowledge
will shine spontaneously as ‘I [am] I’. This alone is
silence [the silent or motionless state of mere be
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ing], the one [non-dual] space [of infinite conscious
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ness], the sole abode of [true unlimited] happi
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ness.
I was just having a little fun with the idea of "quiet mind", but there is a genuine point to be made here. That is that the mind can never truly be quiet so long as it manifests as such - and the root of its manifestation is the I-thought.
