Quotes About Harmony

We all need to keep a strong middle, my friend. The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving

work in tandem—and that means we pedal in different directions, most

The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving forward without a fall.

coincidence was a shadow cast by truth.

Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn't even know it was out of?

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

Some of these islanders dutifully recited for us their ancient law: "Take no more from the sea in one day than there are people in your village. If you observe this rule, the bonito will run well again tomorrow.

Sólo quiero deciros que estamos todos juntos. A veces, al hablar, alguno olvida su brazo sobre el mío, y yo aunque esté callado doy las gracias, porque hay paz en los cuerpos y en nosotros.

Qué es el silencio? El silencio son seis cuerdas sin guitarra.

As Rumi reminds us, a bee and a wasp may drink from the same flower, but one produces nectar and the other a sting. We must choose the nectar.

we work to bring our semitamed ego in line with our higher self so that the ego is an instrument of the soul.

No one, he believed, should abuse the faith by slandering others for their beliefs.

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature. To be wholly alive a man must know storms, he must feel the ocean as his home or the air as his habitation. He must smell the things of earth, hear the sounds of living things and taste the rich abundance of the soil and sea.

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.

in 1954 it looked as if a deep schism had been driven down the middle of our community, pitting Japanese against haole, but the Sakagawa boys had the courage to back away from that tempting, perilous course. They reconciled haole and Japanese, and it is to their credit that they did so.

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

in the short run brutality always wins; it takes longer for amity to prevail.

You preserve nothing without encountering some disadvantages. If we keep this [prairie] dog town, horses will break their legs and rattlers will come back. But in the large picture, things balance out, as they did two thousand years ago. The trick is to preserve the balance and pay whatever price it costs.

But you're right that all of us, Catholics, Arabs, Jews, have got to work out some sensible pattern of life for the world, or new alignments will occur so radical that no one here can visualize

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.