Quotes About Harmony

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

According to the Chinese system of medicine, stagnation is the cause of many illnesses.

Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

I have always found a natural relationship between running and meditation. Running can be a support for meditation, and meditation can be a support for running.

My meditation teachers taught me that with aggression, you may accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

In this light, human nature is the most important global issue.

Bringing heaven down to earth, into our daily life, is how we rule our world.

Remember why you are meditating: to balance the activity of your life by working with your mind.

However, especially in an age of coarsening values, it is hard to feel our natural kindness because it is often blocked by reactionary emotions. This occurs when we divide the world into us versus them. Then the more we forget our kindness, the more unkindness there is, and the more we forget.

Shambhala is not only a place; it is a spiritual path

Enlightened society is where the flower and the rock will meet.

Tilling the ground of our own minds through meditation is how we begin to create a community garden. In doing so we are helping to create a new culture, a culture that can thrive in the modern world and can at the same time support our human journey in an uplifted and joyous way. Such a culture is called enlightened society. Enlightened society is where the flower and the rock will meet.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

Throughout life it is inevitable that we will experience both pain and pleasure. Learning how to handle them leads to harmony and happiness. In meditation, if we are unable to handle pain or boredom, then that pain or boredom becomes our master. Then we spend our entire life trying to avoid being bored or feeling pain. However if we can handle our mind, then we know that we can handle boredom and pain.

Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.

Meditation stabilizes us in our inherent power as humans. It introduces the possibility of living our lives in a continually conscious, confident, and balanced state of mind.

when you give love... it grows and grows.

The psyche is a self-regulating system whose aim is not perfection but wholeness and equilibrium.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.