Quotes About Harmony

In the heart of darkness, a flower blossoms, enriching the shadows with its promise of hope... In the fields of light, an adder coils, and the radiant tranquility is lent savor by its sinister presence. Right and wrong, black and white, good and evil...all my existence I have looked from one to the other, fully embracing neither one...never before have I understood how much they depend on each other.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

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People, in relation to each other and their environments, can unwittingly create moments of poetry.

The fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor. For traditional indigenous peoples it is not a metaphor; it is how you relate to the real world.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The news that is brought to us is nearly always bad news, but for every act of violence or destruction that occurs there are a million acts of peaceful friendliness.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

bliss comes when love is shared with all.

When we understand, we do not seek control of the other, hence are liberated. We

Your act of vengeance will achieve nothing but create a spiral of vendetta. Find it in your heart to forgive

Surrender unconditionally, even in the absence of evidence, to the truth of the cosmos.

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

Vyasa thus shows how confrontation and conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.