Quotes About Harmony

Once, at the end of a field trip to the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, the imam ended his meeting with students by saying, 'Our deepest desire is not that you become Muslim, but that you become the best Christian, the best Jew, the best person you can be. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Thank you for coming.' Then he was gone, leaving me with a fresh case of holy envy.

The Franciscan father Richard Rohr had his eye on a different planetary body when he said, 'We are all of us pointing toward the same moon, and yet we persist in arguing about who has the best finger.

When the compressor for the air conditioning in the house turns on, I feel apologetic. I had no idea how loud it was out here, clearly interrupting a whole valley full of creatures that are trying to say something to one another.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. —SAINT TERESA OF LISIEUX

You must do something to make the world more beautiful.

Everything in the world is part of nature. All the creatures, even the weird ones, are just figuring out how to grow, how to change. How to survive. And maybe they need some help, but if they do, that's okay. I think they'll be okay.

She could never understand that when you were with the right people, you didn't need words in order to know what they felt.

You showed me the side of life I was missing. The memory of it was here in Bell Valley, waiting for me. Now I have to go home and blend the two—right brain, left brain—rational, intuitive." I wasn't sure

Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

Here in the garden, she found an unexpected peace.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Creating a "cared for" environment is a way of showing yourself respect and reinforcing it daily.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. —KAHLIL GIBRAN

Choose interests that are compatible with your time and energy constraints.

The loved one should be a delightful accompaniment to our already intact lives, not the main event.

life is not always about work and career, about testing your mettle or living up to a family name. Sometimes we need quiet and we need play to realize our true selves, to see where we fit in the world.

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.

Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.

A good descant makes the music richer [Katherine Patterson, "Metaphors to Live By"].

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.