Quotes About Harmony

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Hatred never ceases by hatred But by love alone is healed. This is an ancient and eternal law.

Cultivating absolute bodhichitta means having a relationship with the world that is nonconceptual, that is unprejudiced, having a direct, unedited relationship with reality.

when you have made good friends with your self, your situation will be more friendly too.

a commitment to doing our best to not cause harm with our actions or words or thoughts, a commitment to being good to each other.

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

Change your attitude, but remain natural.

Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression.

Every day we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, "Am I going to add to the aggression in the world?" Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, "Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?

Not harming ourselves or others in the beginning, not harming ourselves or others in the middle, and not harming ourselves or others in the end is the basis of enlightened society. This is how there could be a sane world. It starts with sane citizens, and that is us. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

si podemos mantener aunque sólo sea una relación incondicional con una persona, podemos tener una relación incondicional con el mundo.

They were all kind to their hostess, because it made life easier.

Gardening has this embracing quality in that it colours the way you look at the world.

A amizade é assim, tem sempre dois lados e devemos realçar o melhor.

Happy the man who demands no more from life than what life spontaneously gives him and who guides himself with the instinct of cats who seek the sun when there is sun and, when there is no sun, find what warmth they can.

The presence of water invites song and music; there is something about its flow, and the sound of its flow, that elicits other melodies.

Water is a great leveller...On water all are at an equal level.