"Where does my mind go when there is nowhere specific defined for it to go?

The answer is an important one because its answer defines the kind of person we are choosing to become...  The fact is that we become what we think about.  What we seed in our souls grows in us, forms us, becomes what drives us from moment to moment.

What we think about during the waking hours of the day is basic to prayer.  And prayer is also basic to it.  What I put into my soul is what will shape me....

'As you sweep,' our novice mistress taught us, 'pray... Eventually it will become part of you.'

She forgot to say that eventually you will become it, as well."

--From The Breath of the Soul, Reflections on Prayer by Joan Chittister