Quotes About Harmony

The Bible is like a particular music, you cannot always catch the tune of it.

The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it's a dangerous waste of time because they're both right. ... If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It's challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.

Wie begrijpt, die haat niet.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

The body never lies. It's your spiritual tuning fork.

separation is only a useful illusion.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

Que tus intereses sean lo más amplios posibles y que tus reacciones a las cosas y personas sean amistosos y no hostiles: el motor de la felicidad.

Peace in Mind will make life fine

El bien común y el bien particular solo confluyen en muy contadas ocasiones

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Anything with a beat is meat,

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Tradition looks at a traditional civilization as a tree. The root of the tree is permanent and firm in the ground of revelation, but the branches grow in different seasons and in different directions. Tradition does not deny the fact that if you have a harsh and dry winter, the next spring you have fewer flowers and that if you have a winter with more agreeable conditions, you will have more flowers.

Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated from each other in their reality and in fact are inwardly one, and certainly they have never been separated for me throughout my life.

The world is order or cosmos rather than chaos, one that is alive as an organism and at the same time governed by law.

Outside of the har?m, or sacred precinct, in Arabia, it is the duty of the Muslim state, according to the Shar?'ah, to allow the building and maintenance of houses of worship of the "People of the Book," and any order to the contrary is against the tenets of Islamic Law and traditional practice.