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Power of physical expression

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Antirrhinum majus L. (Plantaginaceae; Alt. Veronicaceae; Alt. Scrophulariaceae)

Garden snapdragon

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Power of expression

Remarkable power of expression, which comes in this way, spontaneously, through the inner contact with the psychic being.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)

An exterior power has value only in proportion of its expression of the power of Truth.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother

The power of expression comes by getting in touch with the inner source from which these things come.

The Mother

The Mother. Source unidentified

Expression

For a certain state of consciousness there is not a single word, not a gesture, not an action which does not express a deeper or higher reality, more lasting, more essential, more true; and once one has seen and felt that, everything takes on a meaning, and one sees more clearly how things ought to be organised, arranged, so that a deeper truth may express itself still better than it does at present.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)

The truest expression comes out of an absolute inner silence.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother

In all things that strive towards a new, ever higher and completer expression, Thou art present.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 1.- Prayers And Meditations

When I speak of the physical consciousness, I mean the physical mind and the physical vital as well as the body consciousness proper.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 24. - Letters on Yoga.-P.4

In my view the body as well as the mind and life has to be spiritualised or, one may say, divinised so as to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation of the Divine. It has its part in the Divine Lila, even, according to the Vaishnava Sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not a means - that would be a serious error which would not be admissible. In any case, my speculations about an extreme form of divinisation are something in a far distance and are no part of the preoccupations of the spiritual life in the near future.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 26. - On Himself

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