Quotes About Harmony

It turned out that salt was a microcosm for one of the oldest concepts of nature and the order of the universe. From the fourth-century-B.C. Chinese belief in the forces of yin and yang, to most of the world's religions, to modern science, to the basic principles of cooking, there has always been a belief that two opposing forces find completion - one receiving a missing part and the other shedding an extra one. A salt is a small but perfect thing.

Mark Kurlansky

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

A world without fishing would be sad.

nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.

Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

ahimsa, or nonviolence

inhaling the sparkling light until there was no distinction between the radiance of the air freshener and myself

integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses.

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison.

Whatever is held and listened to will show us where it lives in the world and in us.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. —BUDDHA

Ubuntu—I am because you are, you are because I am…. —A DEEP AFRICAN WAY OF BEING

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

Because we must meet the outer world with our inner world or existence will crush us. It is a spiritual law, as real as gravity. If we don't assume our space as living beings, the rest of life will fill us completely the way water fills a hole.

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

In loving ourselves, we love the world.

The eye can see what we have in common or focus on what keeps us apart. And the heart can feel what joins us with everything or replay its many cuts. And the tongue can praise the wind or warn against the storm, can praise the sea or dread the flood.

The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

To know God without being God-like is like trying to swim without entering water. —OREST BEDRIJ

Everyone pays a price for unity. Everyone has to die to at least some aspect of their dreams and plans for true unity to take place. But wherever unity truly happens, it releases incredible multiplying power.

God's kingdom advances when we embrace each others' uniqueness rather than try to copy it.

After all, the qualities required to be good with horses are the same qualities required to be good at life in general, and vice versa. Chances are