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“Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.”
― Amit Ray

“Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste!”
― Jay Woodman

“Namaste
means that my soul
acknowledges yours -
not just your light,
your wisdom,
your goodness,
but also your darkness,
your suffering,
your imperfections.
It is a recognition
and acceptance of
the inexplicable
divine absurdity,
the miraculous woven
into the ordinary,
light and darkness
intimately entwined
in magical, messy
humanity.
It means that I honor
all that you are
with all that I am.
So, namaste,
my fellow travelers.
I'm so glad we're on
this trek through
the universe together.”
― L.R. Knost

“Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Namaste means the spirit in me sees the spirit in you. And do you see yet the great truth in this simple phrase? When your eyes and brain alone cannot see the spirit in another, the spirit in you sees it always.”
― Sean Patrick Brennan, The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form

“We never stopped being each other.”
― Alicen Grey

“I am that I am
I am me
I am you
We are one”
― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity

“The universe knows.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“We got out of our car in Agra to be faced with 150 people and instantly knew that we were their target. We were white (we still are) and wealthy (in comparison). And these people are masters at the art of distraction. You’ll spot the one approaching from the left, but not the imminent threat from the right. And if you say no they have ways of making you say yes. We were greeted with, “Give me money�� by street urchins, “Give me 20 rupees,�� by a man in a ‘locker room�� looking after our camera equipment, and graceful, exquisite and amused smiles by some of the most magnificently beautiful women in the world. Ladies with coconut oil in their hair, eyes the colour of artisan’s gold, and spirituality in their hearts. And everywhere we went we were greeted with the Añjali Mudrā gesture and the word Namaste, indicating 'I bow to the divine in you.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“The entire path of the Vitraag Lords (the enlightened one) is one of humility (vinaya). The practice of humility (vinaya dharma) begins from Hindustan (India). There are endless practices of humility, starting from putting two hands together (in the gesture of Namaste) to prostrating. And ultimately when one attains absolute humility (param vinaya), he attains moksha (ultimate liberation).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“water pacifies the mind, the spirit, and the body...it soothes us, cleans us, refreshes us...we need it to survive, and there is something so calming and beautiful in the entrancing dance of water as it falls down a cascade, it is pure falling peace for our soul”
― bodhinku

“Lovemaking is the ultimate Namaste.”
― Suzanne DeWitt Hall, Sex With God: Meditations on the sacred nature of sex in a post-purity-culture world

“Peace begins with a kind gesture and Namaste.”
― Debasish Mridha

“We are all CONNECTED and I genuinely believe we should never stop absorbing knowledge from those around us. Observe: Gain from another’s experience. We all have something unique to share, so go out and engage the world with compassion, patience and generosity.”
― Rosalie Bardo

“contemplate without thinking. stop the world. slow down everything. shut off the noise. relax. seize this moment. reconnect. feel and sense what surrounds you. listen to all the colors of light that envelope you. see the melody and harmony that floats about unnoticed. taste the solitude of all this wonderment. smell the beautiful silence within your peaceful serenity. then, reach out and touch your faith. this is my world. awaken.”
― bodhinku

“like the waterfall, let things flow as they need to be, fall where they need to go...then listen to its rhythmic silence, and fall into its peaceful melody”
― bodhinku

“contemplation is protecting yourself from your own thoughts”
― bodhinku

“Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is.
Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.”
― Hegel

“Peace begins with a greeting of Namaste.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?
Who is the Yogi, Namaste?”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“Namaste, a person says, and with just one word, she acknowledges so much. She acknowledges the existence of the soul, she acknowledges the existence of the soul within her, she acknowledges the existence of the souls within other people, and she acknowledges the need to remember this holiest of holy truths often.”
― Sean Patrick Brennan, The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form

“Light and Shadow: Acknowledging at the outset that we're each a little pure makes the world
feel friendlier, it's hopeful as well as polite.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“in the light of love...
love is beauty, like an endlessly glowing field of flowers...
love is the stars, shining through in a world of darkness...
love is the beacon, lighting the way to safe harbour...
love is, what light dreams about becoming...
dreaming light, love is my light.”
― bodhinku

“Thamel"

A narrative written by Avijeet Das

The feelings of Paarijat linger as an epiphany
and the smoke and aroma of incense sticks welcome you into a dream land.

Myriad Thanka paintings splash colors in your eyes and the melodious chants of the Buddhist monks add tranquility to your heart.

Cafes and restaurants mushroom here all the year round as does the grass in the valley around Kathmandu.

While drifting in these lanes of Thamel, you feel like Alice in Wonderland, discovering the magic of hand crafted wooden sculptures, pashminas and yak wool shawls.

And meeting foreign tourists from all around the world, smiling and greeting you a "Namaste" will serenade you with the fragrance
of Nepal, intoxicating one and all!”
― Avijeet Das

“Over and over, the dying and the lepers would whisper the mystical word namaste in my ear. We really don’t have a word like it in English (or even much of a Western conception of it). They explained to me that namaste means “I honor the Holy One who lives in you.�� I knew I could see God in their eyes. Was it possible that I was becoming a Christian, that in my eyes they could catch a glimpse of the image of my Lover?”
― Shane Claiborne

“Gather lovely thoughts.”
― Laura Jaworski