Quotes About Harmony

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms...

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal.

Quand on parle de civilisations, on fait volontiers valoir tels aspects fragmentaires, soit en bien soit en mal : on oublie que la civilisation chinoise n'est pas la déformation des pieds des femmes, et qu'un hôpital ou une route n'est pas une civilisation. Une civilisation est un monde, c'est-à-dire une totalité faite de compensations. Il n'y a pas d'organisme complexe sans quelques maux; la nature est là pour le prouver.

if the potential employees made the mistake of talking about wanting a harmonious balance between work and home life, Bezos rejected them.

Same deal here. It's not "you" and "the universe." It's "universeyou.

You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.

The entire moon and sky can be reflected in a dewdrop on a blade of grass.

Buddhas do not make intentional efforts for this to happen," he says; "it happens when they are activated by the moment of the present." You get it when you allow the universe to act through you without hindering what it wants with your own petty needs and wishes.

even our mistakes are part of the perfection of the universe.

Don't waste any time during the day. What you do right now becomes the seeds for raising up the next crop of wise people. Putting everyone at ease by doing your job well is how you transform yourself and everybody else.

There is no separation between creator, creation, and created thing. You simply admit that you are an extension of the creation, a part of it, accepted by it. Eventually the effort becomes how to live within the intention of the creator. To find this out and follow this Way, is to live.

We eat living food. Through our food we learn constantly how to live on this earth. We are constantly supported by all phenomenal currents of life; we are lived by all beings. That is the truth. We are lived by whom and whatever we take, by their teachings that guide us. One way to live is to show all of their natures through our existence. It is different from our usual way of continuously exploring our capacities for what we really want to do.

In zazen we practice the oneness of reality.

We are both individuals and expressions of the universe. These are not mutually exclusive.

She loved most being in the woods with the diffused light and the quiet there. Such a stillness, with just the pecking of ground birds and forest animals, the flutter of wings, the occasional skittering of squirrels playing up and down a tree. The silent, imperceptible unfurling of spring buds into blossom. She felt comfortable there. As if nothing could be unnatural in that place, within but apart from the world.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Don't prioritize wealth over health, the two go hand in hand.

We are the human family, together we are ONE. We're here to lift one another up, not tear each other down.

Live a fruitful life. Resist evil. Give more than you take. Help others do likewise. The rest will take care of itself.

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.