I understand that a quiet mind is not so much, not thinking, as it is a settled, level headed kind of thinking. This is in contrast to a seesawing, back and forth, unsettled kind of mind. Set your thoughts in place, on the foundation of goodness. Here is the first step to a quiet mind--a mind at rest.
“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” Ps. 131 Conversations Within ts 10/27/