Quotes About Balance

shortest distance possible, finally reaching the bottom, the point of perfect rest.

If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.

The difficult truth is that the basic law of thermodynamics still holds: When we eat more calories than we expend, we gain weight. When we burn more energy through physical activity or exercise than we take in from food and drinks, we lose weight.

Of course, to lose weight, dieters need to eat fewer calories than they burn.

that your and my and the world's hoped-for outward peace depends most fully not on the peace we seek without but on the peace we establish within.

Outwardness does to inwardness what light does to darkness: it chases it away.

And in the end....the love you take....is equal to....the love you make ~ The Beatles

you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

Humanity now is on a reckless course. It is destroying its self-sufficiency in the world. It is endangering the natural balances that have given humanity such a beautiful and splendid world in which to evolve and to live. This is hazardous not only for your future in this world, but also hazardous regarding your relationships with other races in the universe.

variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

You are all vinegar, my dear Helen. I believe in the judicious application of honey.

First give them beauty. Then give them darkness.

This obsession with knowledge at the expense of human life, of ordinary human relations and pursuits, will destroy you

There is nothing in this world more delightful than that middle state in which we mentally balance at times, possessed of the means, lured by desire, and yet deterred by conscience or want of decision.

I measure time by how a body sways.)

The grass says what the wind says: Begin with the rock; End with water.

A mind too active is no mind at all. --Infirmity

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.