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But unless the point is surrendered and silenced, it will not be possible to go beyond the intellectual stage of understanding. And it is only a minority who can achieve this silence and yield capacity for deepening their experience to what amounts to a realization of the truth. The silence has another name: either meditation or contemplation.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 4 : Meditative Thinking > # 68