Quotes About Harmony

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

Houses: we bring together in a small space what in the wild is spread out.

Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point (Life of Pi 68).

Whereas before the road, the sea, the trees, the airm the sun all spoke differently to me, now they spoke one language od unity. Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shares things with sun. Every element lived in harmonious relation with its neighbor, and all was with and kin. I knelt a mortal; I arose an immortal. I felt like that centre of a small circle coinciding with the centre of a much larger one. Batman met Allah

the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

The wise person is the one who knows all things in compliance with what is fitting.

Like untuned golden strings all women are,Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.

By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

Don't fight the trail. Take what it gives you.

If it feels like work, you're working too hard.

You run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.

Hébert had one firm rule: No Competing. Ever.

Your foot is perfectly happy molding itself around rocks. All you've got to do is relax and let your foot flex. It

Wilson called those forces the biophilia hypothesis, which literally means "love of living things" but translates more closely to "Your brain may not remember, but your body will never forget that animals have guarded us since the Stone Age." Why

we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

In the Tarahumara tongue, humans come in only two forms: there are Rarámuri, who run from trouble, and chabochis, who cause it.

Theodore, you have the mind but not the body," his father said. "And without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You have to make your body.

When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forget you're moving. And once you break through to that soft, half-levitating flow, that's when the moonlight and champagne show up: "You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off," Ann would explain.

Perhaps all our troubles—all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome—began when we stopped living as Running People.

For inspiration," the article noted, "he repeats a saying of the Tarahumara Indians: 'When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'