Quotes About Harmony

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray...

Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray […] Tsogyal, if you want to avoid this way of going astray, cut your ties to superfluous companions and remain in solitude!

Don't regard any sentient being as your enemy: to do so is only your mind's delusion. (p. 29)

Always keep to remote mountain dwellings, since solitude is the source of happiness! Don't live the life of an evil householder, since that causes misery for this and all future lives! Since companions influence your daily deeds, associate with people who are in harmony with the Dharma! (p. 112)

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

I am because we are.

Mother Nature (aka the natural world before humans imposed fear on her) provides for every single need.

As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other's lives better by our own hands. Yes, yes, yes—this is possible.

And it all starts with recognizing the beauty that surrounds you, flows through you, fills you with light. It all starts with getting on the frequency of gratitude.

You got some synchronicity happening in your life right now?

Where's the give and take there? That's not a marriage. That's a male version of heaven.

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music." He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

Jack liked it when things balanced themselves like that, the chaos and asymmetries of life coming together in surprising ways to achieve order.

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace...

The child must not invade the parents' whole universe . . . for family balance, the parents also need personal space,

They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.

A good marriage should be based on comparable purpose and ambition

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.

One who lives within reason lives without the spirit