Quotes About Harmony

Researchers Rachel and Stephen Kaplan found that there are four essential elements of a restorative environment: a sense of getting away a feeling of immersion holding attention without effort and compatibility with one's preferences.

we need to disagree less, but we need to learn how to disagree better—without contempt or cruelty. It's

Love has no colour, love has no gender, it is found everywhere and anywhere, only when accepted.

A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

It is imperative to personal peace and family harmony that we recognize that even our service in the Church should never become a means of neglecting our more eternal personal and family responsibilities.

And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine.

Difficult as it may be, I think it is not impossible for the same person to be a scrupulous scholar and dedicated practitioner of Zen, and to let these two disciplines fruitfully supplement and constructively critique each other.

He was like one of those elderly gentlemen in Central Park who go around feeding birds and squirrels. Their pockets are filled with everything these small creatures may like to eat. The birds and the squirrels sense this and they perch on the shoulders of their benefactors and climb all over them in quest of what they consider their legitimate belongings.

His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He

Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?

Por qué tanta prisa por tener éxito, y por qué nos embarcamos en empresas tan desesperadas? Si un hombre no va al ritmo de sus acompañantes, tal vez sea que oye un tambor diferente. Dejad que baile al ritmo de la música que escucha, sin importar su compás ni la distancia desde donde llegue ese sonido» 2.

If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way

Nouwen's wisdom is a fusion of the psychological and the spiritual.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

I am asking for a conversion of our whole person so that all we do, say, and think becomes part of our urgent vocation to be peacemakers… Peacemaking is not restricted by any schedule, job, or talent. It is as universal a calling as the call to love." (pg.23)

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.