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“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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“When the frosted glass that domes our small worlds shatters, then can we gaze upon the cosmos of our souls and know ourselves as we are: the ever-shifting dust of so many stars that settles for tiny moments in small drifts. It is then we can melt the frozen thoughts of ‘us’ and of ‘them’ that stand between you and me, and see the end of wars waged in the imagined space between the corners of this universe we are.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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“Things arise and she lets them come;

things disappear and she lets them go.

She has but doesn’t possess,

acts but doesn’t expect.

When her work is done, she forgets it.

That is why it lasts forever.”

— Lao Tzu

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“Your body is a vessel of love. Treasure it for the love it holds.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”

— Thomas Merton

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“The sun is always looking at the moon, wishing to be bright like that. It never sees it is the beauty it creates.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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“I breathe in. I breathe out. I am present in my body. I am here and not anywhere else, knowing there is nowhere else to be. This is meditation. It doesn’t matter how I sit or don’t sit, or how I hold my hands. It is not how still I stay or silencing my mind. Meditation is noticing my body’s posture, whatever form it takes, and noticing how my hands rest if they are resting, their movements if they are in motion. It is following the quiet of each breath. It is stepping back and listening to the music of thoughts, one note at a time, and watching the beauty of cognition. It is opening space with curiosity for observation and observing, across the hush of that space, the dawn and dusk of joy and sorrow, seeing the winter and spring of laughter and tears, seeing and not changing anything. It is gently watching the poetry of life breathing without waking it.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

— Sarah Williams

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“If you are ever lost and searching for meaning, love is patiently holding it for you.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Find your beauty, my heart, from the world’s movement, like the boat that has the grace of the wind and the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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“Every judgement I make hides the light of a star in my sky.

Acceptance dawns and the sun rises.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Whatever I am doing, I remain aware, each action a moving meditation.”

— Elisabeth Blaikie, Fragrant Heart Meditation