Quotes About Harmony

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

He's so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him.

Uncross your knives

Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.

but as God created life, so did He create destruction.

Nature could be shifted, but not controlled.

The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.

What is made of water and fire -- for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?

In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.

a pretty little minnow...cool as rain, blue as heaven...

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.

This was green magic, visionary in nature, blending the soul of the individual with the soul of the earth.

Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn't waste the milk.

Look down, look down-see how the reeds wave in the water, they are alive but they never break the surface.

In this quiet corner, the best wild flowers grow, and the first peepers are heard in the spring, even before the snow melts. Here, owls call from the treetops in the early morning, and the irreverent crows hold their noisy conventions. Here, the mother deer has her fawn, and the migrating geese come to rest. It is here that the fox is safe from the hunters.

me if everything was all right. I replied, "Everything's copacetic." And it was in fact "copacetic"—our word for "fine and dandy.

King's best speeches end with a wish for inclusiveness, his wish for a place where brown, Black, white, and yellow play together and are judged by their character. I have created that place now, today, but to do it I had to throw all the white people out.

After a few days in heaven, I realized that the javelin-throwers and the shot-putters and the boys who played basketball on the cracked blacktop were all in their own version of heaven. Theirs just fit with mine- didn't duplicate it precisely, but had a lot of the same things going on inside. ~pg 17

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I feel peace with the world.

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

I think humanity has forgotten – this planet is for joy.