QUIET MIND

Meister Eckhart said, "To the quiet mind all things are possible.  What is a quiet mind?  A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own."

The trouble is, our minds are never quiet.  We are forever stuffing them with stuff, while the environment stuffs them some more.  All our waking hours are devoted to this, which leaves our sleeping hours for what little unstuffing our minds can manage, in the form of dreams.

The casualty in all this is God.  We have, on purpose apparently, no room left for Him.  It takes effort to be with God, and we'd much rather put our energy into things more tangible and predictable.  God is not tangible and predictable.  Which is to say, with God there are no guarantees, leaving the outside world our better bet.

The question is, how can we know the benefits of a quiet mind if we don't even attempt it?  How can we know the advantages of God if we don't even try?

Again, Meister Eckhart, "To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God."

It's worth the effort.