Quotes About Harmony

The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

All things are forms of the same universal reality that is simultaneously spiritual and material. The whole cosmos is a unity and the whole cosmos is alive.

I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords—those are true—and some do not, and those are merely bad art. Don't you see?

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

These people who are always talking, reading, and thinking about sex are like singers who think more about their larynx than about singing. They make that which is subordinate to a higher purpose so all important that the harmony of life is upset.

Peace also implies order, the subordination of the body to the soul, of the senses to reason, and of the creature to the Creator.

It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.

If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.

Sharing the Body of Christ in Holy Communion wipes out all accidental distinctions of race, class, or condition. Here we are one with the whole of redeemed humanity...

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

Is there any way to restore harmony to the world? It can be done only by someone coming in from eternity and stopping the note in its wild flight. But will it still be a false note? The harmony can be destroyed on one condition only. If that note is made the first note in a new melody, then it will become harmonious.

Peace belongs only to those who will to have it

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Je ne peux pas être vraiment en paix avec moi-même si je ne suis pas en paix avec mes frères.

Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.

Queer Ducks flock together.

May the sun smile sweetly. May the rain fall softly. May a breeze ruffle your hair. May your host receive you with charm. May your rest be calm. May you be glad wherever you are.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

No se puede arrancar una flor sin molestar a una estrella.

Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.