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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is only gradually, very slowly, through the movements of life and a more or less careful and thorough education that you begin to have sensations which are personal to you, feelings and ideas which are personal to you. An individualised mind is something extremely rare, which comes only after a long education; otherwise it is a kind of thought-current passing through your brain and then through another's and then through a multitude of other brains, and all this is in perpetual movement and has no individuality. One thinks what others are thinking, others think what still others are thinking, and everybody thinks like that in a great mixture, because these are currents, vibrations of thought passing from one to another. If you look at yourself attentively, you will very quickly become aware that very few thoughts in you are personal. Where do you draw them from?—From what you have heard, from what you have read, what you have been taught, and how many of these thoughts you have are the result of your own experience, your own reflection, your purely personal observation?—Not many.(The Mother, 20 February 1957) </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-february-1957#p6</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherTo observe your thoughts, 20 February 1957)</span><span style=you must first of all separate yourself from them. In the ordinary state, the ordinary man does not distinguish himself from his thoughts. He does not even know that he thinks. He thinks by habit. And if he is asked all of a sudden, "What are you thinking of?"background, he knows nothing about it. That is to say, ninety-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;five times out of a hundred he will answer, "I do not know.">There is a complete identification between the movement of thought and the consciousness of the being. <u/span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0903/20conjugate-february-1957verses#p6p12</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To observe your ...when undesirable thoughtscome, if you must first of all separate yourself from look at them, observe them. In the ordinary state, the ordinary man does not distinguish himself from his thoughts. He does not even know that he thinks. He thinks by habit. And if he is asked all of a sudden, "What are you thinking of?"take pleasure in following them in their movements, he knows nothing about itthey will never stop coming. That It is the same thing when you have undesirable feelings or sensation: if you pay attention to saythem, ninety-five times out of concentrate on them or even look at them with a hundred he certain indulgence, they will answernever stop. But if you absolutely refuse to receive and express them, "I do not knowafter some time they stop." There is a complete identification between the movement of thought You must be patient and the consciousness of the beingvery persistent.(The Mother , 22 September 1954) </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/conjugate22-september-verses1954#p12p19</ref></u></span>

<div style="color:#000000;">...when undesirable thoughts come, if you look at them, observe them, if you take pleasure in following them in their movements, they will never stop coming. It is the same thing when you have undesirable feelings or sensation: if you pay attention to them, concentrate on them or even look at them with a certain indulgence, they will never stop. But if you absolutely refuse to receive and express them, after some time they stop. You must be patient and very persistent.</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother , 22 September 1954)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-september-1954#p19</ref></u></span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Most people—and not only those who are uneducated but even the well-read—can have the most contradictory, the most opposite ideas in their heads without even being aware of the contradictions….And if you observe yourself, you will see that you have many ideas which ought to be linked by a sequence of intermediate ideas which are the result of a considerable widening of the thought if they are not to coexist in an absurd way.</div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 20 February 1957)</span>

<div style="color:#000000;">The error comes from thinking that your thoughts are your own and that you are their maker and if you don't create thoughts (i.e. think), there will be none. A little observation ought to show that you are not manufacturing your own thoughts, but rather thoughts occur in you.</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/thought-and-knowledge#p3</ref></u></div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one practises Yoga and observes the thoughts, one sees that they come from outside, from universal Nature, from the mental, vital or subtle physical worlds etc. The proper thing is then to stand back from these thoughts, voices or suggestions, to reject them or else control them, to make the mind free and quiet and open only to the divine light, force, knowledge and the presence of the Divine….Aspire, get into contact with the Light and the true Force, reassert your will to reject these suggestions and voices. Do not take interest in these voices, keep the mind quiet.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/thought-and-knowledge#p5</ref></u></span>