Quotes About Balance

If you isolate yourself, you will become weird," Father Marc continued. "It is a tricky balance between allowing freedom and openness on the one hand, and maintaining a community identity on the other. The idea of community itself should not be allowed to become an idol. A community is a living organism that must change and grow and adapt.

ama la comunidad, pero no la idolatres».

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

Trust in God but tie your camel.

the four characters: ti-ri-po-de, meaning 'two tripods'.)

Truths are best perceived after looking at all sides.

I tell ya one thing, my wife keeps me in line. No matter how many guys are ahead of me.

When we believe we are not where we need to be for spiritual growth, we relegate our daily life to a secondary tier. We energetically pull out of our spiritual life and wait for the appropriate secluded moment in order to fully engage.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Set a plank between those two towers, of a size such as is needed for us to walk on it: there is no philosophical wisdom of such firmness as to give us the courage to walk on it as we would do if it was on the ground.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Your presence of mind becomes your thermostat of thought.

simplicity without oversimplification.

nous risquons maintenant de mourir par excès de moyen et par absence de fins.

Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines that we need. Norman Cousins, editor, innovator, professor

Ambroise Paré said, "I administered the treatment, but nature provided the cure.

and choice one may elect to trigger the benefits of contemplation and affirmation. Take a deep breath, relax, and repeat internally, "My body, mind, and spirit are always working to keep me supremely well.

Make profit a constraint, not an objective.

Heavy was the heart of the evil-doer and it dragged down the Scale....

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

go slow to go fast.