A position that fosters inner silence (Infinity, 197)
He stressed over and over that the internal dialogue is what keeps the assemblage point fixed to its original position. Once silence is attained, anything is possible…The internal dialogue stops the same way it begins, by an act of will…we must will it. We must intend it. (Fire, 131)
Whenever the dialogue stops, the world collapses and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words. (Power, 33)
From which everything stems
Accrued
End result of
Stopping the world
Suspension of judgment
Continuity
(Infinity, 104)
Becoming real (Infinity, 112)
Form for reaching (Infinity, 113)
Traveling from (Infinity, 114)
Results of
Interplay of energy
True mind emerging
(Infinity, 174)
We talk to ourselves about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. (Reality, 218)
You must use your ears to take some of the burden from your eyes…we talk to others and to ourselves mainly about what we see. A warrior is aware of that and listens to the world; he listens to the sounds of the world.
A warrior is aware that the world will change as soon as he stops talking to himself, and he must be prepared for that monumental jolt. (Reality, 219)
…I had remained quiet as if my mind had been turned off. Yet I sat in a state of awareness I have never experienced before. It was a time of thoughtlessness, perhaps comparable to not caring about anything. (Reality, 257)
He then added that by judging by my production in dreaming I must have learned how to stop my internal dialogue at will. I told that I had. (Power, 12)
Walking for long stretches [long]
Don Juan explained that the passageway into the world of sorcerers opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off the internal dialogue.
To change our idea of the world is the crux of sorcery, and stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it. (Power, 13)
Seeing happens only when the warrior is capable of stopping the internal dialogue. (Power, 26)