Quotes About Harmony

It was a good year for both of us, wasn't it?

How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!

When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony.

Let us love the world to peace.

He did not want his son to be all for present success, as the American, or to be all for tradition, as is the Englishman, but he thought the two might find a happy meeting place in a mind not yet well formed.

Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood's tale, they must rise together.

be between us. My mother and stepfather love

As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.

We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love?

Each time a divine incarnation comes to us, it is not to bring new truths or to establish a new religion but to remind us of what we have forgotten: that we are all one, and that we must live in harmony with this unity by learning to contribute to the joy and fulfillment of all.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.

Undivided singleness of mind" is what the Gita means by yoga. It is the complete opposite of the incessant civil warfare among intellect, senses, emotions, and instincts which is our usual state of mind. Yoga is the complete reintegration of all these fragments on every level of the personality. It is the process of becoming whole.

As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.

According to yoga philosophy, the human personality is a constant interplay of these three elements – inertia, energy, and harmony. All three are always present, but one tends to be dominant at any given time – in a day, throughout a stage of life, over a life itself

Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God's children; then you will be in love with all.

Almost every estrangement can be mended if one person involved is willing and able to forgive.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

When we look at the lives of the great mystics, however, we find ready proof that turning inward does not mean turning away from life.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Live long and well--garden.

Take counsel with Nature: she will say that she made both day and night for you.

In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to direct the wonderful, expansive energy of their society away from aggression and domination. Better to use that energy for creative inventions, exploration, and protection of the planet and the powerless.

All we can do is constantly try to get back in balance.