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“Find soul in the tide of solitude.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.”

— Joseph Campbell

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“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“When I feel like the sun is hiding from me, when my heart aches, when tears come, in the depths of my soul, still I rejoice. The poetry of life is breathing in me, and each breath brings a new verse.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“When what I give is given freely, when I let go of what I give before it leaves my hands, my soul never goes hungry and my heart stays full.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,

Drink the wild air's salubrity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When our need to be true to ourselves grows stronger than our fear of not being accepted, we gain the greatest acceptance of all: our own.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

— Walt Whitman

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“Open the window to the west, and be lost in the sky of love;

Drink the sweet honey that steeps the petals of the lotus of the heart.”

— Kabir

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“We each hold the key to greater peace on earth; it opens the door to our own inner serenity. When we smile to the peace within ourselves, we are sharing our peace with the world.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Wisdom tells me I am nothing.

Love tells me I am everything.

Between the two my life flows.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“Self expression is a mirror we make to see our souls. If we cannot express ourselves, we lose sight of who we are. Fear stutters our self expression. Fear of failing, fear of being wrong. Fear of not being enough. The thorn of self criticism, sharpened with comparison, lodges in the side of our creativity, and the unique poetry we are stops singing. But there is no wrong way to be you. Practise non-violence towards yourself by letting go of comparison. Cultivate kindness wherever you meet doubts and fears. Acceptance draws the thorn out: acceptance of our unique perfection, of all the threads—the light and dark, mismatched colours and frayed ends—that weave together to make us so. With acceptance comes love, and love kisses the wound closed.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“Resting in the breath, the inward breath and the outward breath, I am held in present moment awareness.”

— Elisabeth Blaikie, Fragrant Heart Meditation