On the interval between thoughts

There is not a moment that we are without thoughts in our mind.
It appears as if we have no control over the chattering mind, yet we
imagine we are free thinkers with complete control over the thinking process.
J. Krishnamurti advises us to observe our thinking when we will find:

"If you watch very carefully, you will see that though the
response, the movement of thought, seems so swift,
there are gaps, there are intervals between thoughts.
Between two thoughts there is a period of silence
which is not related to the thought process.

If you observe you will see
that that period of silence,
that interval, is not of time;
the discovery of that interval,
the full experiencing of that interval,
liberates you from conditioning—
or rather it does not liberate 'you'
but there is liberation from conditioning.

It is only when the mind is not giving continuity to thought,
when it is still with a stillness that is not induced,
that is without any causation—
it is only then that there can be freedom from the background.