Quotes About Balance

The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.

We cannot find our enlightened minds while continuing to be estranged from our neurotic ones.

intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.

Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.

And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.

O los seres humanos cogerán todos una enfermedad y se extinguirán o producirán demasiada contaminación y se matarán a ellos mismos, y entonces sólo habrá insectos en el mundo y ellos serán el mejor animal.

this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can match. Why do people waste so much time on abstraction? The life that is given to us, that we play out, is something that you cannot any more grasp with systems and ideas than you can tame an elephant with tweezers.

the intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.

We like it the way it is. We're enjoying the oscillating balances, the ongoing war between good and evil, the wonderful small triumphs of the soul. Perhaps it's too soon to end all that. Perhaps we need some more time to think things out.

For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.

You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.

to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125

You know, said Al in a daze of hunger and cold, when you see this, you realize that despite all the crap that goes on in the cities, despite all the words and accusations, the country has balance and momentum. The whole thing is symmetrical and beautiful; it works. The cities are like bulbs on a Christmas tree. They may bum, swell, and shatter, but the green stays green. Look at it, he said, eyes fixed on the horizon, not unmoved by the motion of the train. Look at it. It's alive.

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

We all have different needs for food, vitamins, rest, exercise, stress tolerance, or ability to handle toxins.

The key is to use a healthy, sustainable strategy for weight loss that balances your hormones and brain chemistry and doesn't put you in a starvation response.

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

It turned out that salt was a microcosm for one of the oldest concepts of nature and the order of the universe. From the fourth-century-B.C. Chinese belief in the forces of yin and yang, to most of the world's religions, to modern science, to the basic principles of cooking, there has always been a belief that two opposing forces find completion - one receiving a missing part and the other shedding an extra one. A salt is a small but perfect thing.

Mark Kurlansky