“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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“I have dipped the vessel of my heart into this silent hour; it has filled with love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
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“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

— John Muir
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“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
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“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.”

— Walt Whitman
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