Inner Silence: Beyond the Voices Within

Different 'I's, ranged along the orbit of the swing, wish to say now this and now that, as the light of consciousness touches them, and wakes them to momentary life. To a limited extent one may permit them to speak, provided one has a distinct idea that neither side is right.

Inner silence means being silent in oneself. It means not taking sides in yourself and so being silent. This is impossible if you identify with every I. You may let talk take place on one side or the other, but you observe it and are in yourself silent.

Maurice Nicoll, “The Opposites: Third Force" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 334)