"First of all, you must
want it.
And then you must try and must
persevere,, continue trying.... You sit quietly,
to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of
fifty things, you begin saying to yourself,
"Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm,
peace!" You imagine peace and calm. You
aspire, ask that it may come: "Peace, peace,
calm". And then, when something comes and
touches you and acts, say quietly, like this,
"Peace, peace, peace." Do not look at
the thoughts, do not listen to the thoughts, you
understand. You must not pay attention to
everything that comes. You know, when someone
bothers you a great deal and you want to get rid
of him, you don't listen to him, do you? Good!
You turn your head away and think of something
else. Well, you must do that: when thoughts come,
you must not look at them, must not listen to
them, must not pay any attention at all you must
behave as though they did not exist, you see! And
then, repeat all the time like a kind of - how
shall I put it? - as an idiot does, who repeats
the same thing always. Well, you must do the same
thing; you must repeat, "Peace, peace, peace."
So you try this for a few
minutes and then do what you have to do; and then,
another time, you begin again; sit down again and
then try. Do this on getting up in the morning,
do this in the evening when going to bed. You can
do this... look, if you want to digest your food
properly, you can do this for a few minutes
before eating. You can't imagine how much this
helps your digestion ! Before beginning to eat
you sit quietly for a while and say, "Peace,
peace, peace!" and everything becomes calm.
It seems as though all the noises were going far,
far, far away and then you must continue; and
there comes a time when you no longer need to sit
down, and no matter what you are doing, no matter
what you are saying, it is always "Peace,
peace, peace. "Everything remains here, like
this, it does not enter (gesture in front of the
forehead), it remains like this. And then one is
always in a perfect peace... after some years.
But at the beginning, a very
small beginning, two or three minutes, it is very
simple. For something complicated you must make
an effort, and when one makes an effort, one is
not quiet. It is difficult to make an effort
while remaining quiet. Very simple, very simple,
you must be very simple in these things. It is as
though you were learning how to call a friend: by
dint of being called he comes. Well, make peace
and calm your friends and call them: "Come,
peace, peace, peace, peace, come!"
- The Mother
