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Silence is the absence of all motion of thought or other vibration of activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p13</ref>

The stilling of this current, running, circling, repeating thought-mind is the principal part of that ~~'''~~silencing~~'''~~ of the thought which is one of the most effective disciplines of Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p12</ref>

Silence is always good; but I do not mean by quietness of mind entire silenc'''e'''. I mean a mind free from disturbance and trouble, steady, light and glad so as to be open to the Force that will change the nature.

I am going to give you two examples to make you understand what true spontaneity is. One—you all know about it undoubtedly—is of the time Sri Aurobindo began writing the Arya, in 1914. 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. It was in this state of mental silence which allows the knowledge—and even the expression—from above to pass through that he wrote the whole Arya, with its sixty-four printed pages a month. This is why, besides, he could do it, for if it had been a mental work of construction it would have been quite impossible.

(The Mother, 29 August 1956)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p4</ref>And if one carries this a little further, one should never think and plan beforehand what one ought to say or write. One should simply be able to ~~'''~~silence~~'''~~ one's mind, to turn it like a receptacle towards the higher Consciousness and express as it receives it, in mental ~~'''~~silence~~'''~~, what comes from above. That would be true spontaneity.

(The Mother, 29 August 1956)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p7</ref>

"We say something that is quite clear, but the way in which it is understood is stupefying! Each sees in it something else than what was intended or even puts into it something that is quite the contrary of its sense. If you want to understand truly and avoid this kind of error, you must go behind the sound and the movement of the words and learn to listen in ~~'''~~silence~~'''~~."

(The Mother, 12 March 1951)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p9</ref>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.

(The Mother, 20 October, 1954)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/20-october-1954#p71</ref>

The peace and ~~'''~~silence~~'''~~ must settle deep in, so deep that whatever comes from outside can only pass over the surface without troubling the settled calm within—it is good also that the meditation comes of itself. It means that the Yoga-Force is beginning to take up the sadhana.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p7</ref>

''How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind?''(After a ~~'''~~silence~~'''~~) I mean that this exclusiveness is a habit. However, when one has done a little yoga seriously, one knows very well that one can think here (Mother shows the centre of the forehead between the eyebrows, then the right side, then the left) one can think here, one can think here, one can think in front and, as I was saying just now, one can think much higher—up but naturally, one thinks that all thought-phenomena, concentration, are produced in the brain—and when one '''thinks up above, here (Mother shows the space above the head), one thinks much better than when one thinks here'''. It is only that one has never tried to do otherwise. Not "never tried", there are quite a number of people who have tried and have succeeded.

(The Mother, 8 September 1954)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/8-september-1954#p55</ref>

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