“If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about.” Orlando Bloom, actor
I've been thinking about harmony lately. I've been thinking about it when I look around my messy house, wondering where to begin to transform it into what I hope will be serene beauty. I think about it when I contemplate bringing serenity to my generally chaotic life. It’s a little embarrassing to admit harmony doesn’t seem to be very present in my life. People who are doing things “right” are supposed to have “harmony.”
“For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.”
Sri Aurodindo, mystic and philosopher
I can never think about harmony without thinking about this commercial:
I get along with most people, but I don’t feel I’m in harmony with very many people. Sometimes, and in some places, I am in harmony with nature. But when I think about being in harmony with people, I find I look for feelings of comfort, acceptance, absence of anxiety, trust. My mental image is of dancers, between whom there is a seemingly effortless give and take and knowledge of each other that magnifies the gifts of each.
I’m not much of an opera fan in general, but the Lakme Flower Duet is another example of harmony to me.
(Photograph of Fauvism painting ''The Dessert: Harmony In Red'' (1908) by Henri Matisse. Location: The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.)I like the advice, “For color harmony, look to nature.”
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”
Doug Floyd, author and journalist
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.”
Albert Camus, author and philosopher
“The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.”
Unknown; source, The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
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