Quotes About Harmony

La única forma de salir ganando en una discusión es evitándola.

Very few of us ever walk in the fields and the woods, not talking or singing songs, but just walking quietly and observing things about us and within ourselves. — J. KRISHNAMURTI INDIAN PHILOSOPHER

At 11:00 a.m. the launch puts me ashore and I walk up on the ridge overlooking the sea. Even Nature in her harsher aspects in the tropics soothes and heals. I stand and loiter long on the breezy ridge and look north upon the great blue crescent of the sea. I have but one thought, and am glad to be alone with it on the hills. — JOHN BURROUGHS AMERICAN NATURALIST

And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.

Reign is no doubt wording that is a little too grand for the contemporary mind, though what it refers to is what everyone actually pursues in life. We have been trained to think of "reigning" as exclusionary of others. But in the heart of the divine conspiracy, it just means to be free and powerful in the creation and governance of what is good. In the life of prayer we are training for, we reign in harmonious union with the infinite power of God.

It's impossible to hate and be happy at the same time.

Perhaps Matthew was right, or perhaps Luke was right, but both could not have been right. (See Chapter 13 for the exact citations.)

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.

Compassion is a universal language. - Robert Langdon

Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Science makes an error," he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, "in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead.

Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order.

Langdon glanced over at Brüder and Sinskey, who had been staring upward and who now lowered their eyes to earth. "Jesus," Brüder said. "Yes!" Mirsat said excitedly. "And Allah and Muhammad, too!

William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.

If we all worshipped gravity, there would be no disagreements over which way it pulled.

To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor along with

ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION

As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment—its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony.