Quotes About Harmony

Holding hands together with my family and fellow travelers as the earth circled our little star coursing through the heavens, I felt two things more profoundly perhaps than ever before: We are one, and we are blessed.

To be loyal to "the highest" in us, we must act with reverence toward all of life. By defining virtue in a cooperative rather than a competitive fashion, we seek the common good, which moves us wherever possible from "either/or" confrontation to "both/and" reconciliation.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt possessed knowledge of ultimate causes, that knowledge would be written into their temples not in explicit texts but in harmony, proportion, myth and symbol.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind supports the body too.

The seasons are no longer what they once were,But it is the nature of things to be seen only once,As they happen along, bumping into other things, getting alongSomehow. That's where Orpheus made his mistake.

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I've always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

With full good will they all fell to, And sought no other sauce thereto Than appetite.

Intuition brings us a sense of the ecology of integrity, for intuition is the function that gives a feeling for the entire pattern operating in a given moment.

The utopia of love is completion to the point of stillness. The ideal act of love is to contain all.

She was now the center of what surrounded her. All that was not her made space for her.

The garden is a kind of sanctuary.

Why a sooty-faced negro from a distant land should be an element of disturbance between white brothers was a puzzle to me.

Therefore the yogic adept achieves his goal not by imploring the Tao to favour him but by learning to accommodate himself to its harmonious workings.

See Him in the vernal beauty of the flower, In the ripe glory of the autumnal glow; In summer's rich and radiant festal hour, In winter's purest, fairest robes of snow: There art Thou!

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principal.

it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.