Sometimes thoughts have such a powerful momentum. The way to curtail that is to move from thought into feeling. The mind has to be active, never still. If it turns from thinking into feeling, even in the sense of feeling nothing, it is still aware. It is still doing something even when there’s no activity. Consciousness can become still – but it doesn’t think it is still; it just knows it. When you examine the nature of the mind at stillness, it’s actually very energetic – a contradiction in terms. The stillness which is so-called silence can be very active, because of all the energy it
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