Quotes About Balance

El orden puede acabar resultando excesivo, y eso no es bueno, pero el caos puede anegarlo todo y ahogarnos, lo que tampoco es bueno.

Si la Madre Naturaleza no se mostrara tan dedicada a acabar con nosotros, nos resultaría mucho más fácil vivir en total armonía con lo que dispone.

It much better for any relationship when both partners are strong.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way. And that's much better than happiness.

But there's something to be said for recognizing that existence and limitation are inextricably linked.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

He who contrives, defeats his purpose; and he who is grasping, loses. The sage does not contrive to win, and therefore is not defeated; he is not grasping, so does not lose.

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

You can't long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.

The Principle of Unequal Distribution

Set aside some time to talk and to think about the illness or other crisis and how it should be managed every day. Do not talk or think about it otherwise. If you do not limit its effect, you will become exhausted,

But order is sometimes tyranny and stultification, as well, when the demand for certainty and uniformity and purity becomes too one-sided.

You must decide how much of your time to spend on this, and how much on that. You must decide what to let go, and what to pursue.

One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

you never miss the plane, you're spending too much time in airports.

To do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason.

Aristotle observes that eating either too much or too little is troubling to the constitution.

There is a proper measure in things. There are, finally, certain boundaries short of and beyond which what is right cannot exist").

What Starker Leopold was trying to teach Graber was not to master and control everything but, instead, to remember that because human hands were always unintentionally doing something to nature, they ought to do something carefully planned as well.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?" Here's my response: Unfair.

There are going to be times in your life when you can't really do anything for anyone. So you might as well eat a knish. (p.116)