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“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

— John Muir

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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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“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

— Joseph Campbell

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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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“You are too unique to be comparable—and how valid can anyone’s judgement of you be if you are beyond compare?”

— Quiet Lotus

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

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“Dance, my heart! dance to-day with joy.

The strains of love fill the days and the nights with music, and the world is listening to its melodies:

Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music.”

— Kabir

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“Every breath I breathe in,

and every breath I breathe out,

I see the perfect beauty in each moment.

As I breathe in, and as I breathe out,

I bow within to the beauty of this moment’s perfection.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”

— Emily Dickinson

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“Illness, or a trauma, is not a reflection of an inner shortcoming or failure. It is not a cause to find fault, not with our bodies or ourselves. Illness is another experience, illness is a part of life. It is okay to be unwell. Be gently curious about the experience, pour your love into the places where you are hurting, and see what new awareness blossoms. Every experience offers a gift of deeper understanding and inspiration.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

— Mary Oliver

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“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“The grace of acceptance makes equal gifts of fruits both sour and sweet.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“The movement of life has its rest in its own music.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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“Pain has been my greatest teacher. It crippled me, then made me stand. Then walk. Then run. When I could run no more, it taught me to be present. Then it left. When I meet pain, I smile to it for its reminder to return to the ease of this moment, of this breath.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson