Quotes About Balance

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?

Be in the world but not of it.

but he was never concerned by contradictions.)

God give me chastity, but not right now.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. When you give an Einstein two centuries to perfect his science, you give a thousand others two centuries to perfect their brutality.

Even the vistas were tended, with view lines opened up to sacred architecture.

This wine is austere, structured, with great finesse, and a long, lingering finish.

If you have the golden chicken, the archaeologists don't want the chicken to produce any golden eggs, but the tourist guys, they want to cut it open to get all the eggs at once. There should be a balance.

Anger and tenderness: my selves

Effortless doesn't mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this "effortless effort." We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

The ending of Jesus' life in John is completely different than in Mark. In Mark, Jesus' last breath was a loud death cry from exhaustion and torment. In the Gospel of John, Jesus right to the very end maintains his dignity and balance, and remains centered in divine being. With his last breath, Jesus simply says, "It is finished." Jesus has lived out his destiny; he's played his part well, and he has no regrets.

I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.