==To Progress in Consciousness==
"''Q. Sweet Mother, you have said: “Each meditation ought to be a new revelation, for in each meditation something new happens.” After the meditation, is one conscious of what has happened?"''"''A." '' If one is very attentive, one becomes conscious. One must be very concentrated and very attentive, then one becomes conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-december-1953#p28</ref>
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"Q. How can one learn to listen in silence?"
"''Q. How can one learn to listen in silence?'' ''A." '' It is a matter of attention. If you concentrate your attention on what is being said, with the will to understand it correctly, the silence is created spontaneously—it is attention that creates the silence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951?search=attention#p11,p12</ref>
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Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p19</ref>