Quotes About Harmony

Your girlfriend's sibling or parents might be totally nuts, but always defend them. Always. All a girl wants to do is to get along with her family and if you are on the side of making it easy, you will be loved eternally. It might be easier to condemn them - especially if she's doing that already - but, remarkably, even if they are murderers, she will find the good in them, especially if you start trashing them.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

In nature there is no alienation. Everything belongs.

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and career in order to gain a foothold on the path. One need only balance the various parts of one's personality and provide them with a strong focus.

Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum.

We must plunge into the mystery itself. Only then will we know peace.

Keep life simple… turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy.

Life is a constant series of opportunities. If we don't reach out for things, if we don't take advantage of what comes our way, then we cannot be in harmony with the essential nature of life.

The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow. Therefore meditation should be integrated with the flow of life. It should not dominate above all else.

Go through life without showing off, attracting attention to yourself, or making flamboyant gestures. These will only attract the hostility of others. The wise accomplish all that they want without arousing the envy or scorn of others.

Budist? ?sitikinimu, vyras ir moteris turi tobul?ti t?kstant? met?, tik tada juodu sudarys karm?,leidžian?i? pad?ti galvas ant tos pa?ios pagalv?s.

I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding ' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.