Top 32 Quotes About Lotuses
#1. Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#2. I noted that he had a new type of sandal to go with his clothes - they had a special strap circling the big toe, and another for the rest of the toes. Around the soles, gilded lotuses were painted directly on the leather.
Margaret George
#3. True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.
Lauren Bjorkman
#4. Will and Love practiced
to invoke her Majesty Kundalini
In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses
The perfection of Union is Silence
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#5. There are those who say that in their heaven there is no suffering. But if there is no suffering, how can there be happiness? We need compost to grow flowers, and mud to grow lotuses.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#6. A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.
Bai Juyi
#7. When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
Martha Grimes
#8. Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
Prince Charles
#9. I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
Takashi Murakami
#10. Yum his lips were soft, wet and warm, tasted of honey. He looked hot today; a dark, tight blue tank top showed off his six-pack and muscular arms. The blue in his eyes were luminous.
Elena Carpenter
#11. Evie's eyes widened. More interesting than dope and sorcery?
Libba Bray
#12. In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.
Shunryu Suzuki
#13. Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#14. Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.
Winston Churchill
#15. If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
George Vaillant
#16. Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.
Courteney Cox
#17. When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.
Graham Hill
#18. The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.
George Harrison
#21. Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.
Rajneesh
#23. In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.
Rajneesh
#24. The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#25. Personal style is my mom, after some red wine, walking like she intends to restore order and beauty to the world with her posture alone.
Emily Henry
#26. There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.
Gold Panda
#27. God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.
Rajneesh
#28. O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.
Manmohan Acharya
#29. If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
#30. Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
Gautama Buddha
#31. Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
Leopold Kronecker
#32. There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.
Anne Waldman
