Quotes About Harmony

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake. The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.

If a course of action is in alignment with what the Universe wants, it will become empowered.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Look at a tree, a plant. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

TO OFFER NO RESISTANCE TO LIFE is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your

Real love doesn't make you suffer.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when you are alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. It will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it. In the state of enlightenment, you *are* yourself. There is no self that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore. When you are enlightened, there is one relationship you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.

Love, joy, and peace are deep states of Being, or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such, they have no opposite.

Love your enemies," said Jesus, which, of course, means "have no enemies.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

allow nature to teach you stillness

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

When you are fully conscious, you cease to be in conflict. "No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict," states A Course in Miracles.

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

The positive already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested negative.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.

When I don't mind what happens, what does that imply? It implies that internally I am in alignment with what happens. "What happens," of course, refers to the suchness of this moment, which always already is as it is.

natural state of felt oneness with Being.