“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.”

— Quiet Lotus
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“​Things arise and she lets them come;
​things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn’t possess,
acts but doesn’t expect.
​When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.”

— Lao Tzu
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“Be gentle with yourself.
​You are stardust, dreaming.”

— Quiet Lotus
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“​Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Love tells me I am everything.
Between the two my life flows.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“Every breath I breathe in,
​and every breath I breathe out,
I see the perfect beauty in each moment.
​As I breathe in, and as I breathe out,
I bow within to the beauty of this moment’s perfection.”

— Quiet Lotus
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