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Their Spiritual significance
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Power of mental expression
Power of mental expression has no value unless it is in the service of the Divine.
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Antirrhinum majus L. (Plantaginaceae; Alt. Veronicaceae; Alt. Scrophulariaceae)
Garden snapdragon
Yellow
Power of mental expression
One must always remember that formulas are only a mental expression of the truth and that this truth can always be expressed in many other ways.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 15. - Words of the Mother
All mental expression seems artificial.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 11. - 1970
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
The "Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words "mind" and "mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
The mind proper is divided into three parts - thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind - the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
Mental capacity is developed in silent meditation.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education
The mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 15. - Words of the Mother