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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

[quietlotus]

“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

[quietlotus]

“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

[quietlotus]

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

— Gautama Buddha

[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]

“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

[quietlotus]

“Love comes wrapped in acceptance.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

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

— St. Teresa of Ávila

[quietlotus]

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

— Quiet Lotus

[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]

“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]

“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]

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[quietlotus]

“It is not for me to know what lies beyond this life, but the thought that wild flowers may one day grow from my heart, that tree roots may fill the space of my veins, that my lungs may one day become the worm that feeds the song in a bird’s throat—that brings me the peace heaven whispers of.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“The flowering of love is meditation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[quietlotus]

“Like the rice bowl, its cracks mended with gold, our scars are no cause for shame and need never be hidden.”

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“With an eye made quiet by the power

Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,

We see into the life of things.”

— William Wordsworth