Quotes About Harmony

significado es aquello que transmite, con mucha más fuerza que las palabras, el Himno de la alegría de Beethoven, una creación triunfante que emerge del vacío con una sucesión de hermosos patrones en el que cada instrumento cumple su papel y sobre la que aparece un coro de voces afinadas para cubrir todo el registro de emociones humanas posibles desde la desesperación al júbilo.

The body, with its various parts, needs to function like a well-rehearsed orchestra. Every system must play its role properly, and at exactly the right time, or noise and chaos ensue. It is for this reason that routine is so necessary. The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

creates habitable chaos out of order

you must decide whether you want to be right or you want to have peace.216 You must decide whether to insist upon the absolute correctness of your view, or to listen and negotiate.

Go to sleep properly, and peaceably, so that your parents can have a private life and not resent your existence.

Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos.

Every society is already characterized by patterned behavior; otherwise it would be pure conflict and no "society" at all.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery.

He who has many material things, may be described as rich, but he who knows he has enough, and is at one with the Tao,

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default.

El orden, cuando se lleva demasiado lejos, cae en el desequilibrio y puede también manifestarse de una forma destructiva y terrible.

The higher good would be the simultaneous optimization of your function and the function of the people around you, across time, as we have discussed previously.

PERFECT ORDER BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE

El orden puede acabar resultando excesivo, y eso no es bueno, pero el caos puede anegarlo todo y ahogarnos, lo que tampoco es bueno.

Si la Madre Naturaleza no se mostrara tan dedicada a acabar con nosotros, nos resultaría mucho más fácil vivir en total armonía con lo que dispone.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way. And that's much better than happiness.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other.

It takes a village to organize a mind.

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

conflict in the present, in the service of longer-term truth and peace?

One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

What Starker Leopold was trying to teach Graber was not to master and control everything but, instead, to remember that because human hands were always unintentionally doing something to nature, they ought to do something carefully planned as well.

One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.