“If you stood on a summer’s morning on the bank under a brilliant sky, you would see the thousand petals and say that together they make the lotus. But if you lived in its heart, invisible from without, you might see how the ecstasy at its fragrant core gives rise to its thousand petals. What is beautiful is that which is itself in essence, a certainty of being.”

- Becoming the Lotus: Awakening Osiris: Normandy Ellis