It’s impossible to be still and quiet all the time. As a whale or dolphin must break surface, only to dive back down, only to break surface again, each of us must break surface into the noise of the world, only to rest our way back into the depth of stillness, where we can know ourselves and life more deeply, until we have to break surface again. No one is ever done with this crossover between noise and stillness…..For the noise of the mind never dies. It can only be put in perspective, quieted until we can hear the more ancient voices that give us life.

Mark Nepo, Stopping the Noise