“Learn to be still. When I say, ‘Learn to be still’ I’m not [saying] to meditate. Remember when you meditate there has to be a subject and an object. When I say, ‘To be still,’ just be still. Be still, do not think of anything special. Just be still, quiet. …

Think of all the noise that some of you made this morning as you got out of bed, the talking, the arguing, the mind chattering. That is what I’m referring to, be still. You can talk to your mind this way, tell your mind to ‘be still!’ When your mind begins to chatter say, ‘Be still!’

When the mind starts telling you all kind of things about somebody else say, ‘Be still!’ When the mind brings things of the past say, ‘Be still!’ That’s all you have to do. You are the power. You can still the mind if you really want to, just by telling it to be still.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)