held, understood

The Dalai Lama once joked: "While the West was busy exploring outer space, the East was busy exploring inner space". 

Regardless of the veracity of this, it does seem that for contemporary western societies, silence and stillness are an exception, not the rule.

• Understand it is impossible to silence your mind: It’s human to have thoughts. 
• The more you fight your thoughts, the more you amplify them. Being non-judgmental is the key to stillness.
• Whenever you analyze, you are always thinking into the past and future, not in the presen...