Quotes About Harmony

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

the earth on which we live is the body of God. All people and living things are the body and soul of God. And...we serve God not by making the earth and its people suffer but by making the earth and its people whole.

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

there could be no happy community in which there was one unhappy child.

it was this inner peace that attracted peace around her.

They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act.

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was.

Maybe just living together, loving people makes them look like you, I said." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

And she realized she did not care. She did not need to know the name humans had given the flower. To herself she called it friend and from then on looked for it along the banks of the river and felt concern for it's health.

That feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all.

People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

whenever you go someplace, you meet it, as if it were alive, which of course it is.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.

The world is as beautiful as it ever was. It is changing, but then it always has been. This is a good time to change, and remain beautiful, with it.

What makes a circle sacred is that those who show up for it are the ones who belong in it.

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

You must harmonize your own heart... Only you will know how you can do that; for each of us it is different. Then harmonize, as much as this is ever possible, your surroundings.

the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God

early wildflowers. Then us

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people … it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed … you can't miss it.

Do I think if something's beautiful, it's perfect? I guess you could say that. If I'm in a rapture of beauty, it's perfect to me.

We are a symphony with one instrument playing all the parts. To make the symphony as dynamic as can be instruments must be given to other players.

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

Music is the refuge of the lonely.