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Dignity

Affirms its worth, but demands nothing.

 

Dahlia Spp. Cav. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Dahlia

Medium to large (10-15 cm) fully double flowers with symmetrically arranged ray florets in a variety of forms (broad, rounded or cupped) and many colours (except pink, orange yellow, mauve, and intense red).

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Dignity

To do this yoga, one must have, at least a little, the sense of beauty. If one does not, one misses one of the most important aspects of the physical world.

There is this beauty, this dignity of soul - a thing about which I am very sensitive. It is a thing that moves me and evokes in me a great respect always.

Yes, this beauty of soul that is visible in the face, this kind of dignity, this harmony of integral realisation. When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty, the majesty that comes from one's being the Tabernacle. Then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty, of it the eternal beauty.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 15. - Words of the Mother

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