Quotes About Balance

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Salt deficiency causes headaches and weakness, then light-headedness, then nausea.

Ten menos miedo y más esperanza; come menos, mastica más; lloriquea menos, respira más; habla menos, di más; odia menos, ama más; y todo lo bueno será tuyo. Proverbio sueco

Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

Our crucial task when in pain or despair is not to let the sour feelings spill into everything, so that we stain our sense of the world. Yet we must also take care not to so contain our feelings that they fester and infect our sense of ourselves. Somewhere between these two extremes waits the life of healthy expression, not personalizing everything and not painting the world with our troubles.

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

Because we must meet the outer world with our inner world or existence will crush us. It is a spiritual law, as real as gravity. If we don't assume our space as living beings, the rest of life will fill us completely the way water fills a hole.

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

The eye can see what we have in common or focus on what keeps us apart. And the heart can feel what joins us with everything or replay its many cuts. And the tongue can praise the wind or warn against the storm, can praise the sea or dread the flood.

The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

It is a mysterious and strenuous and simple practice: to walk when we are able and be still when we are not, to bleed the dark that builds within us, and trade it for the light which is always waiting. Despite

Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn't, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she became too conscious of the steps she was taking, did she fall.

We have continually emphasized the dimensions of Christianity that have to do with family, togetherness, belonging, and membership. Please don't misunderstand. These truths are vital, and I believe in their validity. But when they are presented out of balance, they can do great damage. And let's face it: they have been presented out of balance.

Healthy people who do not have a need to control anyone make the best leaders.

Never let your zeal for serving Him get ahead of your prayer for seeking Him.

After all, the qualities required to be good with horses are the same qualities required to be good at life in general, and vice versa. Chances are

True horsemanship is developed in the mindful quality of everything we do—not just in the quality of everything we do with our horses.

Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.

If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we'll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.