Quotes About Harmony

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28 days. Your heart beats in a rhythm particular only to you. Everything has its drumbeat and everything contributes to the dance. You've just got to know when to lead and when to follow.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

As God in Genesis 1 is no imperious warrior, so human beings are not conquerors of creation. The language of dominion lacks all sense of exploitation (1:26, 28). The hoarding of resources is implicitly forbidden in the account: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees are granted to animals and humans alike (1:30). Absent is any hint of the savage competition for resources. God's gift of sustenance is one of abundance, not scarcity, to be shared, not hoarded.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

Let us try what love will do.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

Peace I leave you. My peace I give you.

Living together is an art.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

In their confluence, these complex therapeutic skills may over time become a simpler way of being.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

do not let your frame of mind be any different from your everyday mind.

When the Mind is correct, the brush will be also.

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

Let good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.