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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

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #rabindranath tagore #beauty #grace #nature #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“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

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #rabindranath tagore #peace #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #henry david thoreau #life #tranquility #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“Time cannot be lost in the present moment.

Now exists between the call of the cuckoo,

beyond the dreaming of suns.”

— 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

#quotes #william wordsworth #harmony #joy #quiet #insight #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#quotes #thich nhat hanh #happiness #inner peace #meditation #mindfulliving #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

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

— Quiet Lotus

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #lao tzu #attachment #detachment #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“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

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #henri mattise #art #nature #cosmos #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”

— Thomas Merton

#quotes #thomas merton #peace #love #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[quietlotus]

“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

[quietlotus]

“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

#quotes #rainer maria rilke #letters to a young poet #kindness #love #inspiration #dailyinspiration

[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]

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

— Alan Watts

#quotes #alan watts #present moment #eternal now #life #inspiration #dailyinspiration