THE REAL OIL ON MEDITATION FROM THE QUEEN OF MYSTICS, ST TERESA OF AVILA

If His Majesty has not begun to absorb us, I cannot understand how the mind can be stopped.

There is no way of doing so without bringing about more harm than good, although there has been a lengthy controversy (and there still is!) on this matter among some spiritual persons ... but those in favour of stopping the mind have never given me a reason for submitting to what they say.