Quiet Lotus Meditation

AUDIO MEDITATIONS MANDALAS ABOUT

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“In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash—at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.”

— Thomas Merton

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“To engage fully in life—to learn, to create, to gain insight and awareness, to embrace ourselves and others with kindness and compassion—means allowing ourselves the simple freedom to be wrong, knowing there is no wrong way to be ourselves. Our mistakes are invaluable sources of inspiration and seeds of wisdom, labelled with the stigma of failure without us knowing what may grow from them. Through trial and error we unfold, and there is no shame in the process of blossoming, however inexact it can seem: to bloom is to live. In the freedom to be wrong, to make mistakes, exists the space to question and explore. While conviction narrows our view and hinders our growth, our doubt coupled with curiosity broadens our perspective and consciousness. From awareness comes the opportunity for understanding, and the greater our understanding, the greater our capacity is to accept and to love, to experience the fullness of life.”

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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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“As spring brings blossoms, so with gratitude comes joy. The two are inseparable.”

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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,

Drink the wild air’s salubrity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Peace is a quiet thing. If you seek it, its song gets lost in the clamour of being sought.”

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”

— Kabir

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“Resting in the breath, the inward breath and the outward breath, I am held in present moment awareness.”

— Elisabeth Blaikie, Fragrant Heart Meditation

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Quiet Lotus Heart Seeds

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“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees and the stars and the blue hills appear to us as symbols aching with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“Pain has been my greatest teacher. It crippled me, then made me stand. Then walk. Then run. When I could run no more, it taught me to be present. Then it left. When I meet pain, I smile to it for its reminder to return to the ease of this moment, of this breath.”

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“If you ever feel like you are drowning in worries, stay with your breath. Follow it all the way in and all the way out. It will hold you safely in the present moment, above the tide of your fears.”

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