Values: Harmony

To feel a sense of inner peace, calm, contentment, and serenity; to have harmonious relationships; and to have equilibrium in all areas of life.

Melissa

“The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion of shared humanity. I refuse to indulge in the despair that accepts the logic of the enemies of mankind."

Melissa added 1mo

"Unchecked emotions can distort judgement and lead us away from ethical choices, but emotions that are understood and integrated into our thought processes are essential to making wise and moral decisions." (Martha Nussbaum).

Melissa added 2mo

“No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community. We do not relate to others as the persons we are; we are who we are in relating to others. Simultaneously the others with whom we are in relation are themselves in relation. We cannot relate to anyone who is not also relating to us. Our ... See more

James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse

Melissa added 3mo

Whether we are aware of it or not, we step into any situation tuned in to some mood, a tone or frequency . When I act from contraction in my body – a clenched heart or a dense heaviness in my belly – I am often caught up in webs of stories (“I am scared, I feel resentful”) that limit the arena of my choice-making. Harmonizing the energy body is to ... See more

Harmonizing the Body Electric

Melissa added 6mo

I embrace harmonization as the art of living, as sacred play – a cosmopoietic dance that liberates us from being trapped in one song or story; it opens up vast, pluri-dimensional horizons that diffract into more ways of seeing, more ways of tuning, more ways of healing, more ways of creating. And being a good dancer requires patience, practice and ... See more

Harmonizing the Body Electric

Melissa added 6mo

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