“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” ~ Alan Watts

 

“She stood by the tea-table in a light-colored muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the teacups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.”

― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South