This turn of phrase made me laugh out loud when I first heard it (from the mouth of missed-her-vocation-as-a-stand-up-comedian Christine Heath at the 3 Principles conference this year).
Because on one level it sounds so wrong and yet in the right context it’s bang on the money.
What does it mean?
Well, as an example, a while ago, I wrote another Sunday Spiritual Daily Reminder called ‘Why acceptance seems so hard’ where we looked at some of the ways that the mind tries to make sense of stuff it can’t possibly make sense of (but only because it’s something that’s got nothing to do with the mind).
Take the notion of ‘peace of mind’ for instance.
By definition, this is something that’s experienced when the mind’s not involved. ‘Trying’ to experience peace of mind therefore is an oxymoron.