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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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“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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“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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“Peace does not come from outside you. Peace comes from within. If you lie in a field of wild flowers, watching the clouds drift, and feel peaceful, that peace isn’t the quiet of the poppies dreaming. That peace is you, with you wherever you go.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“An eye is meant to see things.

The soul is here for its own joy.”

— Rumi

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“May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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

— Khalil Gibran

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“Meditation needs no special time or place. Let it spill into each movement, each moment, each breath.”

— Quiet Lotus

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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

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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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“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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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“The world can be a noisy place, but there is a place within you, a quiet place, where you can always go and listen to the gentle song of your heart.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“The soul is happy by nature; the soul is happiness itself.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash—at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.”

— Thomas Merton

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“A heart that is open is an uncaged bird with sunlight under its wings and the whole sky its song.”

— Quiet Lotus