Quotes About Balance

emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing the machines rather than how to run the machines.

but fight we must, if only a gentle bout.

Is the programming on such an ear-button receiver of a caliber to enable a man to be a gyroscope, both taking from and giving to society, beautifully balanced?

Medical science has come to understand that there is a strong relationship between a person's mental and physical health (Proverbs 14:30, 15:30, 16:24, 17:22).

It is the still point in the turning world.

what destroys reason is passion.

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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Una buona reputazione professionale non è sempre garanzia di un intelletto equilibrato.

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted...why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass? from Lord Jim

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Let the earth and the sea each have its own.

Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.

importancia de las democracias donde imperan el derecho, el debido proceso legal, los sistemas de pesos y contrapesos y una miríada de instituciones implicadas en descubrir, evaluar y decir la verdad.

restaurar el equilibro otorgando, por ejemplo, mayor poder de negociación a los trabajadores. También supone brindar mayor apoyo a la investigación básica y mayor estímulo al sector privado para que se comprometa en la creación de riqueza en lugar de la búsqueda de renta.

Capitalist economies have thus always involved a blend of private markets and government—the question is not markets or government, but how to combine the two to best advantage.

Individuals say they are working so hard for the family, but as they work so hard there is less and less time for the family, and family life deteriorates. Somehow, the means prove inconsistent with the stated end. T

You know what's wrong with the world today, bro? The computers. They're ruining the human race." "Computers?" "You ever see elks mate?" Russell said.

Having been through both of those other stages, our mind matures to a place where it is no longer moved: it does not grasp at pleasant things; it is not repelled by unpleasant things. Our mind attains deep, deep balance, like a calm, deep-flowing river. Out of this mature place of equanimity, the conditions arise that open our mind suddenly to the unconditioned, to what is beyond body and mind, to freedom.

The meditative journey is not about always feeling good. Many times we may feel terrible. That's fine. What we want is to open to the entire range of what this mind and body are about. Sometimes we feel wonderful and happy and inspired, and at other times we deeply feel different aspects of suffering.