Quotes About Harmony

Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?

He had created a desert, and called it peace.

The cicadas, as if they were wired on the same circuit, suddenly filled the garden with a loud burst of celebration.

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

ora et labora, prayer and work.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

A shared vision is the first step in allowing people who mistrusted each other to begin to work together. It creates a common identity.

we must allow multiple visions to coexist, listening for the right course of action that transcends and unifies all our individual visions. As one highly successful CEO expressed it: "My job, fundamentally, is listening to what the organization is trying to say, and them making sure that it is forcefully articulated.

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the clouds flying…the child was not observing; he was at rest in the very center of the universe, a part of things, unaware of endings and beginning, still in unison with the primordial nature of creation, letting all light and phenomena pour through.

All animals and wayfarers are Tukten's friends, and listen to him carefully, yet he rarely speaks except when spoken to, and never seems to speak too much; without obtruding, he becomes the centre of each situation, so naturally does he belong where the moment finds him.

The kitchen garden satisfies both requirements, a thing 0f beauty and a joy for dinner.

That our own standing as part of an integrated universe not only allows us but, by singular divine fiat, compels--induces--us to connect, to merge, to unify--

Easygoing, nonmilitant Pop, as at home in Southern California as was Impressionism on the banks of the Seine.

Satchidananda.

If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone.

When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.

The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.

What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.