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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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“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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“You are beautiful. You are sunlight, breathing.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“As an emotion arises that I want to push away, like anger or sadness, I remain centred, opening into the core of the emotion I am feeling. As I do this, I find peace waiting there for me.”

— Elisabeth Blaikie, Fragrant Heart Meditation 

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

— Sarah Williams

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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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“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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“Limitation kept blocking my door. I could see no way past. So I welcomed limitation in, and there was freedom where limitation had stood.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right hand bearing the wreath of beauty, silently to crown the earth. And there comes the evening over the lonely meadows deserted by herds, through trackless paths, carrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcher from the western ocean of rest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“Time cannot be lost in the present moment.

Now exists between the call of the cuckoo,

beyond the dreaming of suns.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“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

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“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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

— 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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“Be patient with the storms that pass, and let your heart stay soft, however cold the wind blows. Gather stars from the gloom with open hands, and find the nectar in the rain. No cloud hides the sun forever. Every night kisses its equal dawn.”

— Quiet Lotus

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“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”

— Henri Matisse