When you become stabilized in Consciousness, the continuous chatter of the mind will lessen and finally stop. This is not the result of suppression or effort, but a natural consequence of resting in awareness itself. The tendency to grasp at thoughts weakens, and in its place, a quiet spaciousness unfolds.

Most people equate inner silence with the absence of thoughts, as if true stillness means a blank mind. But silence is not an emptiness devoid of activity; it is the presence that exists beneath all mental noise. Thoughts may continue to arise, but they lose their capacity to bind you. They pass like clouds across the vast sky of awareness—noticed, but no longer compelling.

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