Quotes About Harmony

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

PROLOGUE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! —RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of East and West

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

Analysis of the history of any successful organization will show that it owed its success to a team of people whose styles, behavior, and needs were different but who could work together. Although organizational success is usually attributed to one person, behind that person is a team that enabled him to perform well.

Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what is wet, fire turns to what is dry. Clouds (the breath of heaven) follow the dragon, wind (the breath of earth) follows the tiger. . . What is born of heaven feels related to what is above. What is born of earth feels related to what is below. Each follows its kind.

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.

No practice exists in isolation.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Saying of the Prophet Women Women are the twin-halves of men.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Community: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

Brotherhood" to the more civilised is connected with training and identity of interest.' Man

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.