Quotes About Harmony

Finally, however, everything will be perfect again. We need to recognise that there are many forms of perfection. Perfection itself may be diverse. So we should not try to divide people into those who are perfect and those who have an impairment, because basically we are all the same.

MUSIC IS THE SOUND OF LIFE, CELEBRATING ITSELF.

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity.

Make kindness an integral part of what you think, say and do. And, I assure you of this. It will give you a life filled with inner peace, love, joy, and happiness. -John Magee

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

So what are violinists? Well, I think they're really sensitive, and kind of deep.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.

In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.

If you kept on spiraling you would eventually discover, as the Chinese did long ago, that 53 perfect fifths (or Lu) almost exactly equal 31 octaves. The first five fifths produce the pattern of the black notes on a piano, the Eastern pentatonic scale.

It's strange. With all this harmonious interplay of numbers you would have expected the whole system to be a precisely coherent whole. It isn't. There are echoes here from the scientific view of a world formed by broken symmetry, subject to quantum uncertainty and (so far) defying a precise comprehensive 'theory of everything'. Is this why the 'near miss' is so often more beautiful than perfection?

When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Every black man under the sun are brothers. I don't care if he lives in America, or in Asia or Africa, or in the Isles of the Pacific or the Gulf.

A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.

halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.

Smile and the world smiles with you.

they didn't have a lot in common in the way people understood that phrase. Rather, they were opposite sides of the same coin. They complemented each other, completed each other. They'd created a life that glowed.

Our psychological being has been severed from our biological selves for so long that we are completely cut off from our true natures.