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

— Elisabeth Blaikie, Fragrant Heart Meditation

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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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“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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“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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“If you ever find yourself looking for a miracle,

look at the grass growing beneath your feet,

at blossoms turning to fruit,

at the tiny acorn that grows into the giant oak.

Nature is a world of miracles.

You are one of them.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars […]”

— Walt Whitman

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“Pour your love into the places where you are hurting.”

— Quiet Lotus

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

— Thomas Merton

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

— Quiet Lotus

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“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. From this I know that non-action (detachment) is useful.”

— Lao Tzu

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“May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Joy is a butterfly easily crushed. Let it rest on an open palm. Let it leave when it leaves. Every moment holds its own joy; let each open and close its wings in the place of the last. Even happiness breathes.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world—above, below, and across—unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”

— Gautama Buddha

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“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

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“Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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“Love comes wrapped in acceptance.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.”

— St. Teresa of Ávila