Quotes About Harmony

The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.

Gratitude is peace.

Beauty is a miracle of things going together imperfectly.

Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.

There is flow everywhere in nature—glaciers are just rivers that are moving really, really slowly—so how could there not be flow in each of

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT

Sometimes you run into someone, regardless of age or sex, whom you know absolutely to be an independently operating part of the Whole that goes on all the time inside yourself, and the eye-motes go click and you hear the tribal tones of voice resonate, and there it is - you recognize them.

Transcendence means you go from judgment, separation from life and yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are, truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.

As the mystics would have us believe, "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.

Polite inclusion is the gateway drug to mercy.

Whether it's Mount Sinai, a pasture, a library, the creek down the road, aliveness (or whatever you want to call it) the song is above us, around us, within us. We transcend the incessant and wearying yammer of bullshit. Transcendence means you go from judgment, separation from life and yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are, truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

For people like me, the fight-or-flight instinct comes out in the desperate desire to fix, people-please, and create harmony.

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?

Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations

In the lake, in the center, the stars were mirrored.

Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning sun can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.

Charles Morgan describes as "the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so that it might be still as the axis of a revolving wheel is still.

am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and inward man be at one.

certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.