Instruments of the Divine Power

Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the
very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they
who are the instruments of the Divine Power. They are dynamic
agents, conscious instruments; they bring down the forces that
change the world. Things can be done in that way, not by a
restless activity. In peace, in silence and in quietness the world
was built; and each time that something is to be truly built, it
is in peace and silence and quietness that it must be done. It is
ignorance to believe that you must run from morning to night
and labour at all sorts of futile things in order to do something
for the world.
Once you step back from these whirling forces into quiet
regions, you see how great is the illusion! Humanity appears
to you like a mass of blind creatures rushing about without
knowing what they do or why they do it and only knocking and
stumbling against each other. And it is this that they call action
and life! It is empty agitation, not action, not true life.
I said once that, to speak usefully for ten minutes, you
should remain silent for ten days. I could add that, to act usefully
for one day, you should keep quiet for a year! Of course, I am
not speaking of the ordinary day-to-day acts that are needed
for the common external life, but of those who have or believe
that they have something to do for the world. And the silence
I speak of is the inner quietude that those alone have who can
act without being identified with their action, merged into it
and blinded and deafened by the noise and form of their own
movement. Stand back from your action and rise into an outlook
above these temporal motions; enter into the consciousness of
Eternity. Then only you will know what true action is.-THE MOTHER.