Quotes About Balance

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

The most important thing is love," said Leigh-Cheri. "I know that now. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life that is almost as deep-seated as the fear of death. Indeed, the resentment of life and the fear of death are virtually synonymous. Does it follow, then, that the more people ask of living, the less their fear of dying?

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

to perform without a net is ecstasy. Papa Phom had often reminded her, To perform without focus is fatal.

Oh, no, darlin', none o' that. Sure and they destroyed some cells, no doubt about it, but 'twas for the good. If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.

Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Humanity was a function of nature. It could not, therefore, live separately from nature except in a self-deceiving masquerade. It could not live in opposition to nature except in a schizophrenic crime. And it could not blind itself to the wonders of nature without mutating into something too monstrous to love. Yes

Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.

for while we must go forever in despair, let us also go forever in the enjoyment of the world.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. That

Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés, says an old French dictum—to live happily, live hidden.

In effect, hunter-gatherers work two days a week and have five-day weekends.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

HENRY: You don't get visited by happiness like being lucky with the weather. The weather is the weather. DEBBIE: And happiness? HENRY: Happiness is . . . equilibrium. Shift your weight.

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.