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“Treating my body as a temple makes it a sanctuary—a peaceful, comfortable place to reside.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

— Henry David Thoreau

[quietlotus]

“I’ll tell you a secret—

‘All things are impermanent!’”

— Ryōkan

[quietlotus]

“Feel the affection in the sun’s warmth,

taste the sweetness in fresh water,

breathe in the perfume of kindness

the humble wild flower offers.

Sometimes love sings in silence.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

[quietlotus]

“A heart wrapped in grudges can only grow sore. Letting go of resentment is being kind to ourselves.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

— Albert Einstein

[quietlotus]

“The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

[quietlotus]

“Meditation gives me the space to step back and look at myself without judgement. From that awareness comes acceptance, and from that acceptance comes love.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

[quietlotus]

“The sun and stars that float in the open air,

The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,

I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness […]”

— Walt Whitman

[quietlotus]

“Follow your heart and joy will carry you.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[quietlotus]

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

[quietlotus]

“I painted my world with joy. Everywhere I went became my heaven.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

[quietlotus]

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”

— Alan Watts