Quotes About Harmony

The Buddha taught that this is like this, because that is like that. You see? Because you smile, I am happy. This is like this, therefore that is like that.

May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter—that has always been my ideal.

Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.

We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: that in the 20th century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth and now the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human. From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.

The Earth is so integral in the unity of its functioning that every aspect of the Earth is affected by what happens to any component member of the community. Because of its organic quality, Earth cannot survive in fragments….The integral functioning of the planet must be preserved.

Until technologists learn reverence for the earth, there will be no possibility of bringing a healing or a new creative age to the earth.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

realize that the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects.

Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly, they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express those actions of their inward forms. And having passed that general visitation of God, who saw that all that he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty; there is no deformity but in monstrosity, wherein, notwithstanding there is a kind of beauty.

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my selfe...

The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.

Ambiance raciale : les Arméniens, vieux habitants du quartier, contribuant à sa dimension de palimpseste des peuples, augmentent mon plaisir (et mon argument) d'habiter le 10e : c'est la France que j'aime, réelle, hétérogène. Que les Arméniens puissent cohabiter tranquillement avec les Turcs, les Juifs avec les Arabes, etc., définit l'ancien idéal républicain de coexistence des contraires.

Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one