Quotes About Balance

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.

Be mindful even if your mind is full.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with comfort.

PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even—and maybe especially—one's loyal ladywife.

Her voice was weak, too much air and not enough sound.

We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.

we live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by cancelling the changes or by cancelling us.

six billion people.

I call Gaia a physiological system because it appears to have the unconscious goal of regulating the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable state for life.

We know now that the Earth really does regulate itself, but because of the time it took to gather the evidence we discovered too late that the regulation was failing and the Earth system was fast approaching the critical state that puts all life on it in danger.

We as a civilization are all too much like someone addicted to a drug that will kill if continued and kill if suddenly withdrawn.

the health of the Earth, not the health of people, in mind. This is why it is much too late for sustainable development; what we need is a sustainable retreat.

dictum of Paracelsus, 'The poison is the dose',

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.

protect them from feeling "bad" at the cost of a meaningful and fulfilling life.

By having disconnected ourselves emotionally from the Earth and plants we have lost our understanding of those links and mutual relationships," writes Stephen Harold Buhner.4

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Somehow, after all, as the universe ebbs toward its final equilibrium in the featureless heat bath of maximum entropy, it manages to create interesting structures.