Quotes About Harmony

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.

scat to rock steady

Buddhas have more fun.

We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.

Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

Once one thinks like a mountain, the whole world is converted. All things confirm me. Then I sit on dojo cushions that do not move. There is no controller and no one to control.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Discourse, it's good for the soul.... civil... or otherwise, which.... do YOU prefer??

Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!

the evening crowd on University Avenue appeared to be living in an earlier American era, one lacking desperation, hysteria, and Fox News.

Patriotism based on the common good does not pander to divisiveness. True patriots don't fuel racist or religious or ethnic divisions. They aren't homophobic or sexist or racist. To the contrary, true patriots confirm the good that we have in common. They seek to strengthen and celebrate the "We" in "We the people.

We can help restore the common good by striving for it and showing others it's worth the effort.

A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we're all in it together. If there is no common good, there is no society.

Cuando la gente actúa al unísono, no solo se ven a sí mismos como más parecidos, sino que después se evalúan unos a otros más positivamente.

the recipe for disharmony was quick and easy: Just separate the participants into groups and let sit for a while in their own juices.

As Samuel Butler wrote more than 300 years ago, "He who agrees against his will / Is of the same opinion still.

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.