Let us take half an hour every day and do nothing in it.

For the first ten minutes we will probably be wretched, for the next ten minutes we may be more wretched, but for the last five minutes we will get a sense of quiet and at first the dust, although not laid, will cease to whirl.

And then--an interesting fact--what seems to us quiet in the beginning of our attempt, will seem like noise and whirlwinds, after we have gone further along.

Some one may easily say that it is absurd to take half an hour a day to do nothing in.

Or that "Nature abhors a vacuum, and how is it possible to do nothing?
Our minds will be thinking of or working on something." In answer to this, I might say with the Irishman, "Be aisy, but if you can't be aisy, be as aisy as you can!" Do nothing as well as you can.
When you begin thinking of anything, drop it.