Quotes About Balance

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

When you lack inner order, it is easy to be overwhelmed by a multitude of possibilities, all of which compete for attention and time—and none of which achieve the desired peace.

Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine

The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.

Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency.

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

Bear shame and glory with an equal peace and an ever tranquil heart.

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.

Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away by the vehement insistence of the senses, O son of Kunti. (2:60)

Serenity is the flavor of meditation...

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.

Seriousness is a disease.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.

While his body's vigor is whole And old age is remote; While his sensuous powers are unimpaired And life not yet exhausted; Only then would a wise man Strive to perfect his soul. Why attempt to dig a well When the house is already burning?

Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit, Clouds big with rain hang low, So good men humbly bear success, Nor overweening grow.

Love prudence.

Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.