Quotes About Harmony

Did you ever stop to think that you can't leave for your job in the morning without being dependent upon most of the world?… Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured. It is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. —Christmas Sermon on Peace, 1967

Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts

We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world....Love is the only way.

La oscuridad no puede conducirte fuera de la oscuridad: sólo la luz puede hacer eso. El odio no puede conducirte fuera del odio; sólo el amor puede hacer eso

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Synchronicity. Life isn't a series of random events at all, but rather an expression of a deeper order.

Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order.

Rather than feel small, however, in this arena she felt part of something much bigger than herself. This gave her both a sense of power and peace.

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Seeing a sunset, Linnea felt connected both to the earth below and God above.

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.

Life is made up of opposing pairs -- life and death, love and hatred, happiness and misery, light and darkness, and on and on into infinity. Finding balance and contentment is like trying to walk a tightrope between all those opposites without falling off on one side or the other and believing that life must be all light or all darkness, when neither one is truth in itself. Imogene

Christina, he said softly, look at me. Feel the rhythm. Feel my rhythm.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

Recuerda usted lo que Darwin ha dicho acerca de la música? En su opinión, la facultad de producir y apreciar una armonía data en la raza humana de mayor antigüedad que el uso del lenguaje. Acaso sea ésta la causa de que influya en nosotros de manera tan sutil. Perviven en nuestras almas recuerdos borrosos de aquellos siglos en que el mundo se hallaba aún en su niñez

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

We who claim toleration should be the first to extend it to others. I

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...