Quotes About Harmony

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

We must be the world we want to create.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Old pond— a frog jumps in the sound of water

It would be time for you to start drawing up peace treaties with your former enemies.

Life does not mechanically alternate between aloneness and participation, rather it embraces them both in an undivided unity.

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

It was a world, in other words, that gave equal weight to modesty and dignity as to pomp, comfort, and splendor.

In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

A central pillar of his later teaching was that fearlessness is a prerequisite for nonviolence.

My two containers, my two soul friends, had come together. I could barely contain my joy. Life was intertwining in wonderful ways.

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; Then you can care for all things.

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

In itself, the apparently dualistic nature of our phenomenal world is not a problem. We can live with hot and cold, love and hate, gain a loss, light and shadow, sacred and profane. The problem is that we human beings inevitably tend to choose for one side of the polarity and against the other side, artificially attempting to split life down the middle.