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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The Mother says “</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">''receptive''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found.”</span>

=== Guidance for one’s actions ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A blank slate is one that is ready to be written on. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Both knowledge and its usage can descend into one’s mind when one removes the noise. This can guide in decision-making, the direction of efforts and everyday actions. </span>

<div style="color:#000000;">According to The Mother, when Sri Aurobindo wrote his books, “It was neither a mental knowledge nor even a mental creation which he transcribed: he silenced his mind and sat at the typewriter, and from above, from the higher planes, all that had to be written came down, all ready, and he had only to move his fingers on the typewriter and it was transcribed.”</div>