Quotes About Harmony

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with my­ self.

Nothing that is good has come into the world without bringing a corresponding evil

O excesso de animalidade deforma o homem cultural; o excesso de cultura cria animais doentes. Este dilema mostra toda a insegurança que o erotismo traz ao homem. No fundo, é algo muito poderoso que, como a natureza, pode ser dominado e usado, como se fosse impotente. Mas o triunfo sobre a natureza se paga muito caro. A natureza dispensa quaisquer declarações de princípios, contenta-se com tolerância e sábias medidas.

La naturaleza no sólo es armónica, sino terriblemente contradictoria y caótica

Lo bueno y lo malo están contenidos lógicamente en la naturaleza y en el fondo sólo son graduales diferencias a una misma cosa.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries.

For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.

Where do I feel out of integrity with myself? What is keeping me from feeling complete and whole?

I want you to play me like a cello.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Todas las relaciones son difíciles. Igual que en la música, a veces tienes armonía y a veces cacofonía.