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flowers
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Gossip
Dark and pointed, this is a flower that wounds more than it charms
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Typhonium blumei Nicolson & Sivadasan (Araceae)
Divaricate typhonium
Deep maroon
To gossip about what somebody is doing or not doing is wrong.
To listen to such gossip is wrong.
To verify if such gossip is true is wrong.
To retaliate in words against a false gossip is wrong.
The whole affair is a very bad way of wasting one's time and lowering one's consciousness.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
The Mother's warning to you against the undesirability of too much talk, loose chat and gossip, social self-dispersion was entirely meant and stands; when you indulge in these things, you throw yourself out into a very small and ignorant consciousness in which your vital defects get free play and this is likely to bring you out of what you have developed in your inner consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother
I have had the experience myself that one can be fully concentrated and be in union with the Divine even while working physically with one's hands; but naturally this asks for a little practice, and for this the most important thing to avoid is useless talking. It is not work but useless talk which takes us away from the Divine.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 16. - More answers from the Mother