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But for the knowledge of the Self it is necessary to have the power of a complete intellectual passivity, the power of dismissing all thought, the power of the mind to think not at all which the Gita in one passage enjoins. This is a hard saying for the occidental mind to which thought is the highest thing and which will be apt to mistake the power of the mind not to think, its complete silence for the incapacity of thought. But this power of silence is a capacity and not an incapacity, a power and not a weakness. It is a profound and pregnant stillness. Only when the mind is thus entirely still, like clear, motionless and level water, in a perfect purity and peace of the whole being and the soul transcends thought, can the Self which exceeds and originates all activities and becomings, the Silence from which all words are born, the Absolute of which all relativities are partial reflections manifest itself in the pure essence of our being. In a complete silence only is the Silence heard; in a pure peace only is its Being revealed. Therefore to us the name of That is the Silence and the Peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p18 </ref>
== Identification with the Divine ==
It is in the silence of complete identification with the Divine that true understanding is obtained. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p24</ref>
In peace and inner silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/peace#p18</ref>
None can say to the Divine, "I have known Thee", and yet all carry Him in themselves, and in the silence of their soul can hear the echo of the Divine's voice. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/relationship-with-the-divine#p6</ref>
In the perfect silence of the contemplation all widens to infinity, and in the perfect peace of that silence the Divine appears in the resplendent glory of His light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p14</ref>
It is obviously in the silence of the mind that it is possible to perceive the Divine Command. The true way of knowing is above words and thoughts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-262-263-264#p6</ref>
Truth is above mind; it is in silence that one can enter into communication with it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/truth-is-above-mind#p21</ref>
Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it then it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/transformation#p29</ref>
Feeling alone in the midst of human beings is the sign that you are beginning to feel the need to find in your own being contact with the Divine Presence. So you must concentrate in silence and try to enter deep within to discover the Divine Presence in the depths of your consciousness, beyond all mental activity. (The Mother, 16 December 1971) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-december-1971#p1</ref>
== Silence in the Physical ==