Quotes About Harmony

MOYERS: So the one great story is our search to find our place in the drama? CAMPBELL: To be in accord with the grand symphony that this world is, to put the harmony of our own body in accord with that harmony.

MOYERS: A poem? CAMPBELL: I mean a vocabulary in the form not of words but of acts and adventures, which connotes something transcendent of the action here, so that you always feel in accord with the universal being.

counterpart, in

Chief Seattle: "The Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth."6

the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint...

The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.

Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this earth brought contamination to the solitude of a soul.

And this stillness of life did not the least resemble a peace.

Let the earth and the sea each have its own.

Everything in the world reminded him of her.  The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.  The swelling outlines of the hills, the curves of a coast, the free sinuosities of a river are less suave than the harmonious lines of her body, and when she moves, gliding lightly, the grace of her progress suggests the power of occult forces which rule the fascinating aspects of the visible world.

La voz de las olas de vez en cuando era un verdadero placer, como la conversación de un hermano. Era algo natural, que tenía su razón, que tenía su significado.

The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe

You know what's wrong with the world today, bro? The computers. They're ruining the human race." "Computers?" "You ever see elks mate?" Russell said.

The intent here is not to suppress whatever feelings we may have, but to communicate in a way that fosters connection rather than divisiveness.

Backbiting and gossip are the third type of unskillful speech. Words of this nature cause disharmony and the loss of friends.

Do no harm, act for the good, purify the mind." The flowering of all the great traditions of Buddhism derives from the teachings in this one simple verse.

If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

BALANCING THE SPIRITUAL FACULTIES Mindfulness also works to balance what the Buddha called "the five spiritual faculties": faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom.

WE MOVE FROM THE FIRST OF THE TEACHINGS OF ALL THE Buddhas, doing no harm, to the second: acting for the good. This principle of One Dharma, common to all traditions, highlights the positive actions we undertake both for our own welfare and for the benefit and well-being of others.

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish. Our

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's too expensive.