Quotes About Harmony

When a leaf falls from a tree, when a river flows to the sea, when a bee flits from flower to flower, it happens without "action" or "doing." Nature is simply being. In the same way, human beings should simply be.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

The guitar has shown us again and again: Three chords can rock the world.

Some people have a great sense of moral responsibility; unfortunately, it's backed up with a poor sense of musical taste. Other people have great musical ability, and very little sense of moral responsibility. It's very difficult to have a good balance. —Eric Clapton

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

Thus, when we look out at the world, we are nature gazing upon itself.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost.

music gives me a structure to think about how the world could possibly be.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Love: two minds without a single thought.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

This emphasis on the philosophy, or worldview, of aikido often makes understanding the art difficult for the beginning student. On one level, the student of aikido must adopt a worldview that accepts violence and attacks. On the other hand, aikido does not meet like with like—aikido does not retaliate with more violence and attacks. It

Ai can be translated as meaning "harmony," "unity," or "to join and become one." The concept of harmony in combat is hard for most people to comprehend. We are all used to fighting force with force, to meeting attack with resistance. The idea of meeting an attack with love and harmony appears contradictory and impossible.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

One of lifes graces and blessings. The only journey is the one within. Model marriage of equals Household Harmony Household & family management The ideals of peace & harmony (In cases of divorce or seperation, the children more commonly lived with the father)

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.

Zen is what remains when words and ideas run out. · What we see and smell and hear is real, it reminds us; what we think about that is not. · In much the same spirit, the Japanese aesthetic is less about accumulation than subtraction, so that whatever remains is everything.