Quotes About Harmony

Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun. —NEI JING, 2ND CENTURY BC

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

Stand on the shoulders of others, not their throats, heads, and backs.

Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.

People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.

He hoped these students would learn how to be at home in the desert, not how to conquer it; and he hoped that, in the process, they might discover the spiritual value of quietude.

People at the Neutral level are easy to get along with and safe to associate with because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.

As with the wei-wu-wei, "in changing it is at rest" (Heraclitus, frag. 84a). In place of the apparently solid I that does them, there would be an empty and immutably serene quality to them. The experience would be not of a succession of events (winter does not turn into spring) but just-this-one-effortless-thing (tathat?) and then another just-this-one-thing.

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. —THICH NHAT HANH

every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Thus, we strive for intimacy with the whole universe, not just with one person.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

May those whose hell it is To hate and hurt Be turned into lovers Bringing flowers.

But if I've learned one thing during our descent into dog rescue lunacy, it's that dogs bridge gaps between people. they smooth over the human condition, and they provide an extraordinarily valuable function. They take people of all political persuasions, religious faiths, and geographical locations and represent something that everyone can love.

tonight? Yoga? Meditation?

Still, isn't it nice to be nice, to hold a breath? Isn't it good to save up for it, and really relish it, just sometimes?

The rocks don't lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.

The universe works with you and for you. It is not your enemy.

Where two or more are gathered in the name of that which loves, that which is compassionate, that which liberates, there blessing is also.

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.