When we use the mind to stop the thoughts, the mind will not stop the thoughts at all, because the mind wants to go on living. Stopping the thoughts is annihilating the mind, and the mind does not wish to be annihilated. The mind wants to live on to fill you full of nonsense, superstitions. Therefore we do not try to stop, the thoughts.

You cause the thoughts to cease by doing absolutely nothing. By being yourself.

– Robert Adams

What is holy, what in unholy, these are all wrong ideas of the mind. Forget all these. In whatever state of mind you are in, in that state call on God.

– Prahlad Baba

As a drunken soldier cannot shoot accurately at a target, so the mind tossed by desires cannot find real, abiding, permanent happiness.

-Dada Vaswani,