Quotes About Balance

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

I study her visage, the fluted snow fields and couloirs of ice scoured by avalanches. Horizontal bands of rock curve downward, as if bearing the weight of the sky. Her summit is like a fulcrum on which the heavens lean, balancing the setting sun and rising moon.

But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.

When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

Life does not mechanically alternate between aloneness and participation, rather it embraces them both in an undivided unity.

It was a world, in other words, that gave equal weight to modesty and dignity as to pomp, comfort, and splendor.

If…there is a conflict between structure and strategy, the structure will win.

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

The Tao te Ching says, "If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

Marion discovered an underlying theme in her clients' dreams. She discovered that her addicted clients lived divided lives—lives split between body and soul, between perfection and imperfection, between light and dark. Healing came about through integrating these "pairs of opposites." She came into an understanding of the way in which longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.