Quotes About Harmony

When I say truth, I mean beauty.

The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply!

The mind divides the world into a million pieces. The heart makes it whole.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Great Way is not difficult if you do not make distinctions. Only throw away likes and dislikes, and everything will be perfectly clear. So

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn— all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

You've learned to play faithfulness in one key, but there are thousands of keys to play it in.

The less we cling to one side of reality—betting on either or or, arguing for for or against—the more we can be aware of the exquisite counterpoint of things. Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.

Blessed are the man and the woman who have grown beyond their greed and have put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions. But they delight in the way things are and keep their hearts open, day and night. They are like trees planted near flowing rivers, which bear fruit when they are ready. Their leaves will not fall or wither.

One reason we are willing to follow our fantasies down the rabbit hole of religious unity is that we have become uncomfortable with argument. Especially when it comes to religion, we desperately want everyone to get along

The ideal of religious tolerance has morphed into the straightjacket of religious agreement.

We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.

It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today's world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You will recognize those four areas as rooted in the four basic needs that allow young people—all people—to feel greater peace of mind.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

if God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.

What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance

Perhaps the highest way to bring balance to life is the family.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

We knew that social comparison motives were out of harmony with our deeper values and could lead to conditional love and eventually to our son's lessened sense of self-worth.