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Yoga methods, meditation practices, and religious mysticism have all been given to the world for a twofold purpose: (a) as temporary disciplines, to sharpen the mind and enable it to concentrate on abstract themes, and to purify the character so that strong worldly desires should not interfere with one's power to think without prejudices such as, for instance, the preconception that the material world is ultimate reality, and (b) because at the end of enquiry, when all ideas are seen never to reach the Thinker, the Yogi enters the Silence.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 1 : Mystical Life in The Modern World > # 45