“Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

“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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“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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“Feel the affection in the sun’s warmth,
taste the sweetness in fresh water,
breathe in the perfume of kindness
the humble wild flower offers.
Sometimes love sings in silence.”

— Quiet Lotus
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