Quotes About Balance

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.

What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control.

Inequality is the very basis of creation. At the same time the forces struggling to obtain equality are as much a necessity of creation as those which destroy it.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever — rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.

puts the cart before the horse.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death, Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death, Love is Life, Hatred is Death." — Swami Vivekananda

When we have succeeded in preventing all the forces in the world from throwing us off our balance, then alone we have attained to freedom, and not before.

In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Y ou must avoid excessive merriment A mind in that state never becomes calm it becomes fickle

Our life is born on earth, our death is also necessary here, the earth to keep him well, to protect him; We also have the responsibility to rebuild him, only then is it possible to form a new life

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.