Quotes About Harmony

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

Body of yin, soul of yang.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

That's what you are. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

And then what? said her daemon sleepily. Build what? The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra.

Streite mit allem, was du willst, aber nicht mit deiner eigenen Natur

The Musicians of Bremen

Nosotros seguimos siendo un solo ser, los dos formamos una sola criatura

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean.

Yes, the secret commonwealth…You don't hear much talk about that these days. When I was young, there wasn't a single bush, not a single flower nor a stone, that didn't have its own proper spirit. You had to have a mind to your manners around them, to ask for pardon, or for permission, or give thanks….Just to acknowledge that they were there, them spirits, and they had their proper rights to recognition and courtesy.

The music I play after dinner is not a relief from the silence but something like its substantiation: listening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn't deprive me of the silence — the music is the silence coming true.

There is an inner working of intelligence behind the movement of energy in the world. This natural or organic intelligence is conscious and sure in its plan and method, not by choice or intention but intuitively and spontaneously, as a movement of pure beauty and harmony.

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means David Frawley

Asana, with its soothing, stretching and relaxing action, is the main physical exercise for balancing the doshas. It calms Vata, cools Pitta and releases Kapha.

And, no matter how evolved a person may think he is, he has no right to interfere with the spiritual practices of another, because interference is itself the most un-evolved of all religious actions.

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity

This reflects four primary goals for an ayurvedic asana practice: 1. To balance the doshas 2. To improve the structural condition of the body 3. To facilitate the movement and development of prana 4. To calm and energize the mind

Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate will be taken advantage of. It is more a question of balance, or harmony, if you will.

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge.

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

unity, pride, respect, loyalty, excellence, and integrity.