Quiet Lotus Meditation

AUDIO MEDITATIONS MANDALAS ABOUT

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“The world can be a noisy place, but there is a place within you, a quiet place, where you can always go and listen to the gentle song of your heart.”

— Quiet Lotus

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“Open the window to the west, and be lost in the sky of love;

Drink the sweet honey that steeps the petals of the lotus of the heart.”

— Kabir

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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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“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

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“Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just be.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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“Where I am undefended is where I know love.”

— Quiet Lotus

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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.”

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“Happiness … not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Quiet Lotus

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“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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“‘The learned say that your lights will one day be no more,’ said the firefly to the stars.

The stars made no answer.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“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

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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

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

— Quiet Lotus

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

— Thích Nhất Hạnh