Quotes About Harmony

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Stones make no splash on a frozen lake.

The world was full of lies. And people keep telling us we need them, all in the name of peace. But the peace we got was poison.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.

Even order needs freedom, lest it solidify and becomes fragile

peace would settle on his soul.

It is the absence of society that leads to destruction. When concord is lost, when arguments cease and in opposition neither side sees the other as kin, as brother and sister, then all manner of atrocity is possible.

Does it ever strike you, Finadd, that peace leads to an indulgence in strife?' 'No, since your statement is nonsensical. The opposite of peace is war, while war is an extreme expression of strife. By your argument, life is characterized as an oscillation between strife during peace and strife during war.' 'Not entirely nonsensical, then,' Turudal Brizad said.

Look, universal consciousness only works when everybody's on the same page. But no one's ever on the same page. So instead you've got all these fragmented slices of consciousness, each one stuffed into this tiny brain, none of them capable of even recognizing any other consciousness as being just as legitimate as their own, and so the whole thing turns into this giant ego-wank.

Symmetry, lad, is a power unto itself. It is the expression, if you will, of nature's striving for balance.

Power has voice, and that voice is the Song

Sex is the glue that holds society together.

There must be the hope … the hope for balance. In my soul.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor

It was a bright, clear day, and the car felt alive to her, as though the way she and the car moved together was a sort of destiny, and everything was happening exactly as it ought to.

I'd let her sell it to Dad. They tended not to contradict each other so if one of them had already said "yes" it usually meant "yes." If one of them said "no", ditto--which was why I'd asked Mom first.