Quotes About Harmony

He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic world somehow on track.

In my ears i hear a noise, and this noise is the sound of the color of the sun.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.

How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.

Be in the world but not of it.

were not shouting anything, just silently

but he was never concerned by contradictions.)

Even the vistas were tended, with view lines opened up to sacred architecture.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago. Someone asked him to define his experience of enlightenment. He said, "Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable." I love that, because it defines enlightenment not just as a realization, but as an activity. Enlightenment is when everything within us is in cooperation with the flow of life itself, with the inevitable.

The way they perceive the world suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between themselves and the rest of the world.

If you strip it of all the complex terminology and all the complex jargon, enlightenment is simply returning to our natural state of being. A natural state, of course, means a state which is not contrived, a state that requires no effort or discipline to maintain, a state of being which is not enhanced by any sort of manipulation of mind or body—in other words, a state that is completely natural, completely spontaneous.

Effortless doesn't mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this "effortless effort." We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

Close the gap between what is and what you want it to be, between what is presenting itself and what you want to present itself. This gap of judgment is the separation you feel. You need to totally choose what is and lean into it with your whole being.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is.

This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

When this unification occurs, there's a simplicity to life, a deep sense of freedom and essential well-being and also of fearlessness.

Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That's the primary illusion -- that there is something called "my spiritual life," and something called "my daily life." When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It's all one seamless expression of spirit.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.