=== Quietude ===
Quiet is rather negative—it is the absence of disturbance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p10</ref>
The first step is a quiet mind—silence is a farther step, but quietude must be there, and by a quiet mind I mean a mental consciousness within which sees thoughts arrive to it and move about, but does not itself feel that it is thinking or identify itself with the thoughts or call them its own. Thoughts, mental movements may pass through it as wayfarers appear and pass from elsewhere through a silent country—the quiet mind observes them or does not care to observe them but in either case does not become active or lose its quietude. Silence is more than quietude; it can be gained by banishing thought altogether from the inner mind keeping it voiceless or quite outside; but more easily it is established by a descent from above—one feels it coming down, entering and occupying, or surrounding the personal consciousness which then tends to merge itself in the vast impersonal silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p36</ref>
Quiet === Calm === Calm is rather negative—it a positive tranquillity which can exist in spite of superficial disturbances. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p11</ref> It is not necessary [in a calm mind] that there should be no thought. When there is no thought, it is silence. But the mind is said to be calm when thoughts, feelings, etc. may pass through it, but it is not disturbed. It feels that the absence of disturbancethoughts are not its own; it observes them perhaps; but it is not perturbed by anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p58</ref> === Peace === Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p10p12</ref> The silence and peace are themselves part of the higher consciousness—the rest comes in the silence and peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p20</ref> When the mind is silent, there is peace and in peace all things that are divine can come. When there is not the mind, there is the Self which is greater than the mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p21</ref> It is from the Silence that the peace comes; when the peace deepens and deepens, it becomes more and more the Silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p29</ref>
== Not only Continence of Speech ==