Quotes About Balance

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?

yet the very name Ganga-Sagar, joining, as it did, river and sea, clear and dark, known and hidden, served to remind the migrants of the yawning chasm ahead; it was as if they were sitting balanced on the edge of a precipice, and the island were an outstretched limb of sacred Jambudvipa, their homeland, reaching out to keep them from tumbling into the void.

But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches

As I thought of these things, it seemed to me that this whole world had become a place of animals, and our fault, our crime, was that we were just human beings, trying to live as human beings always have, from the water and the soil. No one could think this a crime unless they have forgotten that this is how humans have always lived—by fishing, by clearing land and by planting the soil.

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.

Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.