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Their Spiritual significance
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Expressive silence
Certain silences are revelations and are more expressive than words
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Linaria maroccana Hook. f. (Plantaginaceae; Alt. Veronicaceae; Alt. Scrophulariaceae)
Moroccan toadflax
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Expressive silence
When all is supreme harmony, can this harmony be expressed otherwise than through silence, a smile, a radiance or "inspired" poetry?...
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 1. - 1951-1960
It is in silence that the soul best expresses itself.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
Why should you think the Mother does not approve of expression, - provided it is the right expression of the right thing, - or suppose that silence and true expression are contradictory? The truest expression comes out of an absolute inner silence. The spiritual silence is not a mere emptiness; nor is it indispensable to abstain from all activity in order to find it.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother
There we shall find and repeat in our own lives at once the utter reality of His self-collected calm and the perfection of His divine force at work, shama and tapas united in an action which is the fulfilment of a mighty Silence expressing itself in waves of power and bliss. That harmony and oneness of divine calm and divine work is man's ultimate experience and the true nature of God active in the world.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Isha Upanishad
A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and void the physical mind has a certain fear, the small superficially active thinking or vital mind a shrinking from it or dislike, - for it confuses the silence with mental and vital incapacity and the void with cessation or non-existence: but this silence is the silence of the Spirit which is the condition of a greater knowledge, power and bliss, and this emptiness is the emptying of the cup of our natural being, a liberation of it from its turbid contents so that it may be filled with the wine of God; it is the passage not into non-existence but to a greater existence. Even when the being turns towards cessation, it is a cessation not in non-existence but into some vast ineffable of spiritual being or the plunge into the incommunicable superconscience of the Absolute.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 19. - The Life Divine: Book 2
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