Quotes About Balance

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath - our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

There is more to life," said Gandhi, "than increasing its speed.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.

Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men....

A perfect matching between a man and a woman starts with a fight between them.

At last, the world stops spinning. The ground is solid beneath her feet once more.

Sexual healing and general recovery need to work together in the same way that music and lyrics work together to make a song: They alternate and blend together at different times. They are complementary, not isolated, experiences.

My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency.

Some days you control life; other days life controls you." Philip

Do not forget, life is a dance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Lean back, tighten abs, keep arms locked, look for a place to land my hands.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Randall balanced a large brown box under one arm while he chomped on a green apple held in his free hand. He grimaced with every bite. He'd

Sour apples neutralized chocolate. Bread neutralized hot, spicy foods

Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency. How the heck is a girl supposed to "be" anything?