Quotes About Harmony

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it

They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it by action, not preaching. That word was love.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

I am divided between my man and a life with him---and some thing of the outdoors---of your world---that is in my blood---and that I know I will never get rid of--- I have to get along with my divided self the best way I can---

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968)

As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful.

This [Ghost Ranch] is my kind of world. The kind of things one sees in cities . . . well, you know, it's better to look out the window at the sage.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.

If you want my personal view I do not think it matters what you worship provided what you worship does no harm to others....You must remember always that one man's God may be another man's fairy tale, but both Gods and fairy tales have their place in the world.

The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and together we could go waltzing over the hillsides.

choir of cicadas whose song made the air tremble.

Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.

I visualized myself walking proudly through the olive groves, preceded by the dogs, Ulysses, and my two magpies, and trotting at my heels, four tame hedgehogs, all of which I would have taught to do tricks.

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

I can be of no real help to another unless I see that the two of us are in this together, that all of our differences are superficial and meaningless, and that only the countless ways we are alike has any importance at all.

As each of us moves toward the single goal of achieving peace of mind for ourselves, we can also experience the joining of our minds that follows the removal of the blocks to our awareness of Love's presence.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

The love in us can unite with the love in others, but two bodies can never become one.

That Jews and Christians, together with Muslims, can live in amity, respecting differences while honoring commonalities—that this is no pipe dream—is proven by the fact that, for centuries, they did just that. —James Carroll1

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.

A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.