Quotes About Harmony

We were taught that the organism that is best able to control both its environment and all the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. 'Survival of the fittest'. But our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others more than it values itself, and that values love more than it values the physical world and what is in it.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

both a cluster of taro roots and a family group.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

Glissant: "For me, the arrival is the moment where all the components of humanity – not just the African ones – consent to the idea that it is possible to be one and multiple at the same time; that you can be yourself and the Other; that you can be the Same and the Different. When that battle ... is won, a great many accidents in human history ... will be abolished.

That is why, as Paul Westermeyer observes, "a group who sings together becomes one and remembers its story, and therefore who it is, in a particularly potent way.

Congregational singing requires proximity. "If I am more than three feet away from you, I don't sing, because you might hear me. If I am less than three feet away, I do sing, because I can hear you.

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just to be life going absolutely perfectly

I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death.

Law is always better than war.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

I began to feel a little more at evens with the world and I made friends with a little horse called 'Amber', who got on very well with Jews.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Say anything at all – I love the sound of your speech.

Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.

there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility …

It's much better to love on your own than not love as a group.

Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.

Enkidu never should've killed the guardian of the forest. He should've joined him. That's what too much civilizing does to you.

As one of the documents from a worldwide gathering of Dominicans states, "Dialogue is…a necessary mode of existence in a world of difference."8 Only through dialogue can we glimpse the beauty and deep insights of the world's spiritual traditions.