Quotes about Harmony

life seems to be a collision of opposites.

But which should come first, grace or responsibility? The answer is that both come first. All we can do is get out of the way and then the soul takes its natural course.

As I said, this Spirit has two jobs. First, she creates diversity, as exemplified in the metaphor of wind—just breathing out ever-new life in endlessly diverse forms. But then the Spirit has another job: that of the Great Connector—of all those very diverse things! All this pluriform life, the Spirit keeps in harmony and "mutual deference"267—"so there shall be one Christ, loving Himself," as Augustine daringly put it.268

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting, pushing or pulling, you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic. You can take that as axiomatic: in most cases, you become a mirror image of both what you oppose and what you love (see Ephesians 5:14).

Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

Don't start by trying to love god, or even people. Love rocks and elements first. Move to trees, then animals, and then humans… It might be the only way to love, because how you do anything, is how you do everything.

The nuclear family has far too often been the enemy of the global family and mature spiritual seeking.

Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi13

Mutual perfect faith would be heaven!

Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it. This knowing and this enjoying are a good description of salvation.

Christ can hold together everything. In fact, Christ already does this; it is we who resist such wholeness, as if we enjoy our arguments and our divisions into parts.