Quotes About Harmony

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.

I know that when she talks about God, she doesn't mean what I mean. I'm not sure that matters. If she stays with us, obeys our rules, joins in our joys, sorrows, and celebrations, works alongside us, it doesn't matter

Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.

a crystal willow, a poplar of water,a tall fountain the wind arches over,a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still,a course of a river that turns, moves on,doubles back, and comes full circle,forever arriving:

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

I think that I shall never see, a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word "peace." It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind. - 17th Karmapa

[The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.

The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus..

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it. Rikiu loved to quote an old poem which says: 'To those who long only for flowers, fain would I show the full-blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered hills.

Industry was subordinated to the conscious social goal. Science, formerly the slave of industry, became the free colleague of wisdom.

The music of the spheres is unlike other music not only in respect of its richness, but also in the nature of its medium. It is a music not merely of sounds but of souls.

we are both in essence intelligent and sensitive beings, we can rise far above our differences, to reach across the gulf that separates us, and be together in this exquisite union of opposites.

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

We came together like months in a lunar year, measured in nights, dividing perfectly into female phases. Like women anywhere living in groups we had synchronous menses. And had no need of a wound, a puncture, to seal our bond.

This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

maybe in our bodies there's a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything - stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?

We have a view of the world, but Animals have a sense of the world, do you see?