If we can just rest on a regular basis for twenty to thirty minutes without thinking, we begin to see that we are not our thoughts. We have thoughts, but we are not our thoughts. Most people suffer because they think that they are their thoughts and if their thoughts are upsetting, distressing, or evil, they are stuck with them. If they just stopped thinking for awhile every day as a discipline, they would begin to see that they do not have to be dominated by their thoughts.
~Thomas Keating, Intimacy With God
art, Morning Prayer, Jean-Baptiste Greuze
