Quotes About Harmony

this preoccupation with order, control

Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

Don't start by trying to love god, or even people. Love rocks and elements first. Move to trees, then animals, and then humans… It might be the only way to love, because how you do anything, is how you do everything.

Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi13

Mutual perfect faith would be heaven!

Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it. This knowing and this enjoying are a good description of salvation.

Christ can hold together everything. In fact, Christ already does this; it is we who resist such wholeness, as if we enjoy our arguments and our divisions into parts.

Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. By the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts - so many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of all things, including ourselves. I promise you this unified field is the only and lasting meaning of up.

The more that we can put together, the more that we can "forgive" and allow, the more we can include and enjoy, the more we tend to be living in the Spirit.

Life moves first toward diversity and then toward union of that very diversity at ever higher levels. It is the old philosophical problem of "the one and the many

Up to now we have been more in love with elitism than with any egalitarianism; we liked being the "one," but just did not know how to include the many in that very One.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.

The message is that people are more likely to agree with you when they have already said something positive.

Dewdrop joins dewdrop Till a petal holds a pool Reflecting its rose.

A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root.

There were just enough flaws to make her perfect.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced — it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another—until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.