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Stillness If you remain very quiet, even physically, and meditationwhen violence is directed at you, you are able to remain very quiet, it is very silent, very still, well, that has a power not only in meditation that one can reach the Divine consciousness, over you will learn that one can . To remain in contact with the Divine even while playing or doing gymnastics or walking or doing anythinglike a wall, absolutely motionless to wade off attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/ascetic22-practicesfebruary-1956?search=physical+immobility#p13p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>

The normal activity of our minds is for the most part a disordered restlessness, full of waste and rapidly tentative expenditure of energy in which only a little is selected for the workings of the self-mastering will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p6</ref>Stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements, thought formations, thought currents which agitate this mind-substance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p17</ref>It is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/july-25-1962#p115</ref>

The normal activity of our minds In a complete silence only is for the most part Silence heard; in a disordered restlessness, full of waste and rapidly tentative expenditure of energy in which pure peace only a little is selected for the workings of the self-mastering will,its Being revealed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayogathe-purified-understanding#p6p15</ref> =Why is Stillness Important?=

In When there is a complete silence only in the being, either a stillness of the whole being or a stillness behind unaffected by surface movements, then we can become aware of a Self, a spiritual substance of our being, an existence exceeding even the soul individuality, spreading itself into universality, surpassing all dependence on any natural form or action, extending itself upward into a transcendence of which the limits are not visible. It is these liberations of the spiritual part in us which are the decisive steps of the spiritual evolution in Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolution-of-the-spiritual-man#p6</ref> Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p27</ref> 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 heard; from which all words are born, the Absolute of which all relativities are partial reflections manifest itself in a the pure peace only is its Being revealedessence of our being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p15</ref> =How to Practice Stillness?= A constant aspiration for that [''to be constantly governed by the two things can go together, you see, there Divine''] is the first thing—next a moment when sort of stillness within and a drawing back from the outward action into the two—aspiration stillness and passivity—can be a sort of listening expectancy, not only alternate for a sound but simultaneousfor the spiritual feeling or direction of the consciousness that comes through the psychic. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/becoming-conscious-in-work#p36</ref> An uncompromising abolition of the ego-sense at its very basis and source. You can be This, if persistently done, changes in the end the mental outlook on oneself and the whole world and there is a kind of mental realisation; but afterwards by degrees or perhaps rapidly and imperatively and almost at once the beginning the mental realisation deepens into spiritual experience—a realisation in the state very substance of aspirationour being. More and more frequent conditions come of something indefinable and illimitable, a peace, a silence, a joy, a bliss beyond expression, a sense of willingabsolute impersonal Power, which calls down something—exactly a pure existence, a pure consciousness, an all-pervading Presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p8</ref> =Stillness in Yoga= There are two movements that are necessary—one is the ascent through the increasing of peace and silence to its source above the mind,—that is indicated by the tendency of the consciousness to rise out of the body to the top of the will head and above where it is easy to realise the Self in all its stillness and liberation and wideness and to open oneself to the other powers of the Higher Consciousness. The other is the descent of the peace, silence, the spiritual freedom and receive, wideness and the aspiration which calls powers of the higher consciousness as they develop into the lower down to the force you want to receive—and at most physical and even the same time be subconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in that state /cwsa/30/ascent-and-descent#p16</ref> A deep, intense or massive substance of complete inner peace and stillness which allows full penetration, for is very commonly the first of its powers that descends and many experience it is in this that way. At first it comes and stays only during meditation or, without the sense of physical inertness or immobility that one can be penetrated, that one a little while longer and afterwards is lost; but if the sadhana follows its normal course, it comes more and more, lasting longer, and in the end an enduring deep peace and inner stillness and release becomes permeable by a normal character of the consciousness, the Forcefoundation indeed of a new consciousness, calm and liberated.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0630/21descent-and-other-aprilkinds-of-1954experience#p26p7</ref>