Quotes About Harmony

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Now the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross was not only to bring men back into fellowship with God, but also into fellowship with their fellow men. Indeed

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Where every separate tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.

We be of one blood, thou and I—

As Mang flies between the beasts and birds, so fly I between the village and the jungle. Why?

Trees and men do not grow together

If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. And finally

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard.

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

How much easier the task will be to review your past life, if you live each day as if that was the sole recording of your entire lifetime. Keep that page so neat and tidy, so filled with loving care, that if your life ended at midnight the page would be spotless and blameless, for surely even the worst of us can live one day in nearly blameless harmony with all about us.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

In Zen we have a story. If your left hand gets a painful splinter, what does your right hand do? Does your right hand say, "Oh, that's too bad, but it's not my problem"? No, of course not. The right hand pulls the splinter out. This is interconnectedness.

Music is like outer space, Benny. No need for flying to some other place. Everything is so beautiful right here.

I don't hate anybody.

Waves and starlings, pebbles and crows . . .

As I bathe myself I pray with all beings that we can purify body and mind and clean ourselves inside and out.