Quotes About Harmony

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Mais existent-ils, ces mots qui atténuent la haine des autres?

El silencio sigue siendo el mejor antídoto para los desacuerdos.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Hinduism is not about joining a church but about developing respect for all beings, not only humans but plants and animals as well. It is not about a particular holy book but about understanding our own minds and hearts. It is not about a savior but about discovering the Divine presence within us.

think one of the big lessons is that we should do more talking and less fighting.

Whatever color a person's skin, whatever language he speaks, God loves him.

God's will for us is that we live out the harmonious expression of our gifts, temperament, passions and vocation in truthful dependence on God.

This is my manifesto. My attempt to nudge people toward something, or back toward something. Toward what? An understanding that most of us already have on a deeper level. That a world exists outside of us. A world that reminds us that we are animals, too, animals who have evolved along with other animals on this earth. Thinking, planning, scheming, talking, writing animals, but animals nonetheless.

Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life – of surplus and luxury, of living like gods – we had to go and tamper with that harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life - of surplus and luxury, or living like gods - we had to go and tamper with hat harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

The Neolithic botanists'] was not a science of domination and classification, but one of bending and coaxing, nurturing and cajoling, or even tricking the forces of nature, to increase the likelihood of securing a favourable outcome. Their 'laboratory' was the real world of plants and animals, whose innate tendencies they exploited through close observation and experimentation.

While ruthlessly aggressive toward other species, they are also unusually cooperative with their own kind. Ants from neighboring nests don't fight, as with other species,

We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth. My name for this vision is Terra Sapiens, or "Wise Earth." A

What if one characteristic of really advanced intelligence is to become less and less distinguishable from natural phenomena?

Jung states: Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation; Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation." 64 And that is the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious.65

Tao is very often the Way that each individual has to follow if [one person] wishes to accord with the great cosmic principles that govern life instead of putting up a futile resistance to them at the cost of needless stress and frustration.52

As Chuang Tzu says: Too much pleasure? Yang has too much influence. Too much suffering? Yin has too much influence.28

Of the energies of the universe, none is greater than harmony. Harmony means the regulation of yin and yang."29

The true men of old were not afraid When they stood alone in their views. They had no mind to fight Tao. They did not try, by their own contriving, To help Tao along. These are the ones we call true men. Minds free, thoughts gone All that came out of them Came quiet, like the four seasons. 24

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.

The primal spirit loves stillness, and the conscious spirit loves movement.