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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Progressive expression
What you cannot say today, you will know how to say tomorrow
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Antirrhinum majus L. (Plantaginaceae; Alt. Veronicaceae; Alt. Scrophulariaceae)
Garden snapdragon
Many colours. A variation of the common snapdragon in which the lower lip is flattened, opening the "mouth" of the flower into a somewhat trumpet shape.
"Butterfly Hybrids"
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
If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting experience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all & never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust & scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 17. - The Hour of God
Give up all personal seeking for comfort, satisfaction, enjoyment or happiness. Be only a burning fire for progress, take whatever comes to you as an aid to your progress and immediately make whatever progress is required.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education
Above all, it is the will for progress and self-purification which lights the fire. The will for progress. Those who have a strong will, when they turn it towards spiritual progress and purification, automatically light the fire within themselves.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)
Always ready to change everything, except ONE thing: to aspire. That thirst.
I quite understand: some people don't like the idea of a "Divine" because it immediately gets mixed up with all the European or Western conceptions (which are dreadful), and so it makes their lives a little bit more complicated - but we don't need that! The "something" we need, the Perfection we need, the Light we need, the Love we need, the Truth we need, the supreme Perfection we need - and that's all. The formulas ... the fewer the formulas, the better. A need, a need, a need ... that THE Thing alone can satisfy, nothing else, no half measure. That alone. And then, move on! Move on! Your path will be your path, it doesn't matter; any path, any path whatever.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 5. - 1964