More than three hundred years ago, a wonderful little woman in France took the Galilean at his word. She put all her emotional strength into aspiration and meditation and succeeded in achieving an exalted state by practising a simple method… Her doctrine came to be called Quietism because she showed people how to quieten their personal thoughts and emotions and thus become aware of the impersonal heaven behind them, the kingdom within…

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

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