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"People say 'oh I don't meditate because I can't still my mind'. The funny thing is none of us can quiet our minds and we're not actually asking in meditation to quiet the mind. We're just asking you to sit with all of this movement. The movement of your body. The movement of your breath. The movement of your brain. And the movement of all the thoughts. My dad use to fly weather planes into hurricanes. And he did it at a time when the airplanes were not actually very strong. The planes would just split apart. And sometimes I feel like my life is like that. I'm splitting apart. I'm sitting in this hurricane and this body and this mind and this heart are being torn apart. But I don't realize that if I go a little further there's an eye of the hurricane. And I can reside there actually. I can place both feet there actually. Please spend some time sitting in the eye of the hurricane. So even though my life is going on and there's great movement, sometimes tumultuous movement, there's also a center. In meditation you feel both of those things. You don't want to get rid of your thoughts. You want to notice your thoughts, but you want to notice also that there is quietness inside the spinning of your mind." - Rodney Yee