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A mind that has been made silent is not a silent mind. It is a dead mind

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For the mind to be silent, all its contradictory corners must come together and be fused in the flame of understanding

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Only the silent mind can receive that blessing which is not of church or belief

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Silence comes with the absence of desire

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Silence is a state totally outside the machinery of the mind; the mind cannot conceive of it, and the mind's attempts to reach silence are still a part of noise

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Silence is not the outcome of noise; it is not a reaction whose cause is noise

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Silence is not to be bought through any form of compulsion; it is not the reward of any suppression or even sublimation

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The silent mind is not a reflective mind. To reflect, there must be the watcher and the watched, the experiencer heavy with the past

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There is no silence where there is conflict, repression, resistance

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