“An eye is meant to see things.
​The soul is here for its own joy.”

— Rumi
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“Put out the lamp when thou wishest.
​I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
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“Passion and peace sing to the sky; both stars and stillness paint the night. Neither the sleeping moon nor the hunting owl hears disagreement in their song, only harmony. We are an echo of those constellations. We are matter, burning brightly with life, and we are the stillness within the soul’s breath between. Our passion doesn’t shatter peace. All that we feel is borne by the stillness peace breathes. Nor does peace extinguish feeling. Peace is the space to step back and see the beauty of the flame. Without notes lighting the silence, there is no music and no dance…and what is music without space between the notes?”

— Quiet Lotus
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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

— Mary Oliver
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​“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke
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