Quotes About Harmony

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

The need for perfection and the desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other.

I am certain that a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace. And inner peace translates into outer peace.

If you do, there will come a day when you'll rarely feel the need to do battle at all.

If you want to be a more peaceful person you must understand that being right is almost never more important than allowing yourself to be happy.

One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, "Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?" Many times, the two are mutually exclusive!

The greater our surrender to the truth of the moment, the greater will be our peace of mind.

two rules of harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff, and #2) It's all small stuff.

Wildlife is and should be useless in the same way art, music, poetry and even sports are useless. They are useless in the sense that they do nothing more than raise our spirits, make us laugh or cry, frighten, disturb and delight us. They connect us not just to what's weird, different, other, but to a world where we humans do not matter nearly as much as we like to think. And that should be enough.

Science is the poetry of reality.

To describe the forests of the world as its 'lungs' does no harm, and it might do some good if it encourages people to preserve them. But the rhetoric of holistic harmony can degenerate into a kind of dotty, Prince Charles-style mysticism.

The genotype may be a 'physiological team', but we do not have to believe that that team was necessarily selected as a harmonious unit in comparison with less harmonious rival units. Rather, each gene was selected because it prospered in its environment, and its environment necessarily included the other genes which were simultaneously prospering in the gene-pool. Genes with complementary 'skills' prosper in each others' presence.

We live on a planet where we are surrounded by perhaps ten million species, each one of which independently displays a powerful illusion of apparent design. Each species is well fitted to its particular way of life.

being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

In the end all that was left was the heat and the clouds of rain, and insects and birds and animals and vegetation that neither knew nor cared. Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo. Decades

And suddenly one note came back to us, just bounced back off the walls and rose from the floor and filled the place with this perfect hum...These two completely different things, a note and a room, finding each other. It sounded...right. Am I being ridiculous? Do you think that's what we mean by love, Mr. Evans? The note that comes back to you? That finds you even when you don't want to be found?

John Ruskin wrote that composition is the arrangement of unequal things.

Composition is the arrangement of unequal things

Fragment 9: We have as One in us that which is living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old: because these having transformed are those, and those having transformed are these. The

Nature is the expression of the Logos, as are human beings, and our task is to wake up and participate consciously.

Fear, by its depressing effect on our mentality, thus causes disharmony in our physical and magnetic bodies and paves the way for [bacterial] invasion. The real cause of disease lies in our own personality. ..

that it was good for different cultures to come together, and chip away at human prejudice one party at a time.

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.

Think of me as deep music. You can always hear me if you try.