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sequences. This is one step ahead of the methods which may be
called "quietist", which are founded on the rejection of all activity
and a plunging into an immobility and inner silence, which forsake
all life because it has been suddenly felt that without peace one
can't have any inner realisation and, quite naturally, one thought
that one couldn't have peace so long as one was living in outer
conditions, in the state of anxiety in which problems are set and
cannot be solved, for one does not have the knowledge to do so.
The next step is to face the problem, but with the calm and
certitude of an absolute trust in the supreme Power which knows,
and can make you act. And then, instead of abandoning action,
one can act in a higher peace that is strong and dynamic.
This is what could be called a new aspect of the divine inter-
vention in life, a new form of intervention of the divine forces in
existence, a new aspect of spiritual realisation.
CWM 9: 303-04
Surrender and illumined thought
There is in Love, at its Origin, something which is translated
constantly as the intervention of Grace: a force, a sweetness,
something like a vibration of solace spread everywhere, but which
an illumined consciousness can direct, concentrate on some
points. And it is there, there itself that I saw the true use one can
make of thought: thought serves as a kind of channel to carry this
vibration from place to place, wherever it is necessary. This force,
this vibration of sweetness is there in a static way upon the world,
pressing in order to be received, but it is an impersonal action.
And thought — illumined thought, surrendered thought, thought
which is no longer anything but an instrument, which tries no lon-
ger to initiate things, which is satisfied with being moved by the
higher Consciousness — thought serves as an intermediary to es-
tablish a contact, a relation, and to enable this impersonal Force to
act wherever it is necessary, upon definite points.
CWM 11: 42-43

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