Quotes About Harmony

We're all stuck here for a while, so let's try to work it out.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

We have the ability (under special circumstances) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. I called this ability the hive switch.

You may not agree, but you'll probably shift from Manichaean disagreement to a more respectful and constructive yin-yang disagreement.

Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself. Once

Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's try to work it out.

you don't usually help the bees by destroying the hive. Finally

As the eighth-century Chinese Zen master Sen-ts'an wrote: The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

We have the ability (under special conditions) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. That ability is what I'm calling the hive switch.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

We planned for betrayal. They planned for deceit. No one ever thought to plan for harmony.

What if food really was love and world peace could be a reality?

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you

together." "Barone could have been

I went along agreeably until all that was left was agreeability.

Social norms are the cement that holds societies together.

The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.

There is music in the noise, beauty in the chaos, truth in the lies, light in the void. He who has eyes, let him see.

Ahora ve despacio, chico. A la naturaleza no le gustan las prisas. —Sí, padre

In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing.

The Harmonic Mean gives us the Major Triad The Arithmetic Mean gives us the Minor Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Augmented Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Diminished Triad

Whether one likes this or that person is less important, finally, than whether one likes oneself with this or that person.

stamping out prejudice inevitably means making everybody share the same prejudice

Intergroup animosity need not be about anything,