Q: Do some people have more mental chatter than other people? Do some people naturally have a quiet mind? 

A: A naturally quiet mind doesn’t exist. Mental chatter appears differently across people, sometimes as nervousness, sometimes as verbal self-talk, sometimes as an emotional internal voice. A quiet mind is trained through practice and repetition. Meditation is practical and belongs to human capacity rather than to any single culture, even though every culture and era has forms of meditation. The human mind holds capacities beyond thinking.