Quotes About Balance

Ideally, only 10 percent of Taijiquan movement is expressed externally, as 90 percent of the true functioning occurs internally and is unseen by others.

and there are more things in this world than just your qi and ego. Lao-tzu understood this when he claimed that his three treasures were frugality, compassion, and humility. Avoid fanaticism by following Lao-tzu's example.

Applying these ten Tai Ji Quan Principles of Movement can be seen, in analogy, as if a person were floating in mid air—from

Now there was no need to be concerned with offering equal time or performing a news function.

As the Democratic Party drifts more leftward, there is an urgent need for a center-right party to argue for a different vision and governing philosophy.

I've given this a great deal of thought and what I've realized is that revenge doesn't have to be an eye for an eye. Retaliation can take any number of forms. It doesn't need to be crude or obvious. The point is, the pain should be equivalent; not tit for tat but something comparable.

Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks.

Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

I'm not the kind of person who sentimentalizes nature. The outdoors, as far as I can see, is made up almost entirely of copulating creatures who eat one another afterwards.

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.

Si no hablamos del mal, ¿cómo comprenderemos qué es el bien?

Jack Kornfield offers a beautiful image for our new understanding: "We can let ourselves be carried by the river of feeling—because we know how to swim.

For humans," says psychologist Ed Tronick of the University of Massachusetts, "the maintenance of [emotional balance] is a dyadic collaborative process." In other words, we are designed to deal with emotion in concert with another person—not by ourselves.

Spouses depending on each other too much was what wrecked marriages!

As lovers, we poise together delicately on a tightrope. When the winds of doubt and fear begin blowing, if we panic and clutch at each other or abruptly turn away and head for cover, the rope sways more and more and our balance becomes even more precarious. To stay on the rope, we must shift with each other's moves, respond to each other's emotions. As we connect, we balance each other. We are in emotional equilibrium.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.

You think with your head. You know with your heart.

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?