Quotes About Harmony

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

in you life, to let you know that you are from the dead quickened by the Spirit, made like unto Jesus. Glory to God! Oh, the word resurrection! I wish I could say it just on parallel lines with the word Jesus. They very harmoniously go together. Jesus is resurrection, and to know Jesus in this resurrection power is simply to see that you have no more to be dead but alive unto God by the Spirit.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

May the inward and outward man be as one.

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one.

Rhythm and harmony permeate the innermost element of the soul, affect it more powerfully than anything else, and bring it grace, such education makes one graceful if one is properly trained, and the opposite if one is not.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.

Je ne peux pas accepter de regarder le ciel sans la terre, ni la terre sans le ciel.

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

The posture we take when we meditate signifies that we are linking absolute and relative, sky and ground, heaven and earth, like two wings of a bird, integrating the skylike, deathless nature of mind and the ground of our transient, mortal nature. The

Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.

the central truth of Buddha's teaching: that we are all already essentially perfect.

Buddha Maitreya, whose name means "loving kindness

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

If my dying relative or friend is a practicing Christian and I am a Buddhist, is there any conflict?" How could there be? I tell them: You are invoking the truth, and Christ and Buddha are both compassionate manifestations of truth, appearing in different ways to help beings.

No one anywhere was angry, ill, or sad; no one did evil, none was proud; the world became quite quiet, as though it had reached full perfection.

And the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures. And until they pass away from pain May I also be the source of life For all the realms of varied beings That reach unto the ends of space.8