Quotes About Harmony

Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

We are not as divided as it seems.

we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life.

we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish. And so the world watches America—the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work.

Unless we could recognize one another's reality, I'd argue, we would never solve the problems America faced.

common courtesy spoke across cultures

What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

You can't save trees by ignoring people

colors—that we could transcend the old logic, that we

Carl Sandburg poem come to life. There were inner-city kids jostling one another on a field trip, well-coiffed bankers working their flip phones, farmers in seed caps looking to widen the locks that allowed industrial barges to take their crops to market. You'd see Latina moms looking to fund a new day-care center and middle-aged biker crews, complete with muttonchops and leather jackets, trying to stop yet another legislative effort to make them wear helmets.

War is not nice.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." — Mahatma Gandhi

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

Why shouldn't our "great chain of being" include the other creatures with which we have shared the planet, the creatures we have martyred in service to us or driven out of their homes to make way for our expansion?

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful If not, it can't be helped.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever.

If trained to nature from an early age, could a mind be freed from its vendetta against the world's creatures?

Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.

Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.