Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

Regarding meditation and the notion one should cease thinking. I'm not sure whether it's possible to stop thinking (I know I can't do it), but it is possible to let thoughts come and go without chasing, exploring, engaging, fearing or judging them. It's about becoming a witness to your thought process. It takes practice to create that gap between the witness and the mind but once the gap is there, the penny drops, you realise that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.