I can quiet my mind.

Quiet is not the same as silence. A mind with nothing in it is not the goal and is probably not on offer.

What actually changes is the volume of the urgency. The same thoughts can be in the room without any of them insisting on being dealt with immediately, the way traffic outside a window stops being noise about two weeks after you move in.

Nothing about the street changed. Something about the listening did. That is generally what quiet turns out to mean, and it is a far more reachable thing than emptiness.