#harmony

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#government #harmony #tea-ceremony #art

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cooperation #freedom #harmony #love #peace

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#black #colors #fashion #harmony #white

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#connectedness #harmony #hozro #life #nature

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#happiness #harmony #keystones #love #marriage

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#harmony #letting-go #life #rhythm #serenity

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#universe #dreams

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#equilibrium #harmony #mathematics #metaphysics #physics