How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind?
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, and 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 do not listen to him, do you? Good! You turn your head away (gesture) and think of something else.
