Practice is not about achieving a realization in our heads. It has to be our flesh, our bones, our self. Of course, we have to have life-centered thoughts: how to follow a recipe, how to put on a roof, how to plan our vacation. But we don’t need the emotionally self-centered activity that we call thinking.
 

Charlotte Joko Beck (1917 CE-2011 CE), Charlotte Joko Beck was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen.