Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 124
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
April 26, 1931
I do not find any pity for my loneliness in Tagore’s letter1, only his own explanation of my secrecy and solitude. 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.
1 Tagore had written, “All creators are lonely – so is Sri Aurobindo”.