Quotes About Harmony

Silencio la voz de la cigarra parte las rocas

Even if you have three or four extra syllables, or even five or seven, you needn't worry as long as it sounds right. But if even one syllable is stale in your mouth, give it all of your attention.

Dragonfly can't decide which blade of grass to land on

Under the cherry/blossom soup/blossom salad.

When you plant it handle the wild cherry tree like a baby

55. Yellow rose petals/thunder-/a waterfall 65. Butterfly-/Winds curve into white poppy. 67. First winter rain-/I plod on,/traveler my name. 75. Wake butterfly-/it's late, we've miles/to go together. 93. Peony-/the bee can't bear to part. 94. Has it returned,/the snow/we viewed together? 95. No moon, no flowers, no friend-/and he drinks sake, 96. Unknown spring-/plum blossom/behind the mirror. 136. Wintry day,/on my horse/a frozen shadow.

Summer moon - Clapping hands I herald dawn

I went to a snow-viewing party.

Sparrows in eaves, mice in ceiling - celestial music.

One after another In silent succession fall The flowers of yellow rose - The roar of tumbling water.

The butterfly perfuming it's wings fans the orchid - Matsuo Basho

There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline.

doing what you love with people you like the way you want.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

The ultimate mark of skillful running is the ability to run with minimal mental effort.

I feel we need to stop seeing mental and physical health as either/or and more as a both/and situation. There is no difference. We are mental. We are physical. We are not split up into unrelated sections. We are not an existential department store. We are everything at once.

To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

And by noticing how modern life makes us feel, by allowing that reality and by being broad-minded enough to change when change is healthy, we can engage with this beautiful world without being worried it will steal who we are.

Music is about time,' I told her. 'It is about controlling time.

nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

In all chaos there is a cosmos," said Carl Jung, "in all disorder a secret order.

Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing - indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.

May I be safe and live happily . . . May she be safe and live happily . . . May they be safe and live happily . . . May all living beings be safe and live happily.