This beautiful quotation from French Philosopher, Simone Weil, could be describing the practice of mindfulness, with its emphasis on the need to move away from just thinking and opening to a wider attention. By paying atttention, even to the simplest details of each day, we create space for a deeper wisdom to grow.

As long as a person tolerates having his inner self full of his own thoughts, of his personal thoughts, he is entirely submitted  –  even in his most intimate thoughts –  to the constraint of needs and the mechanical play of force.  But everything changes when, by virtue of real attention, he empties his soul to let the thoughts of eternal wisdom pass through it. He then carries in himself the very thoughts to which force is submitted.

Simone Weil