Quotes About Balance

He who loses his head, loses,

God grant me the serenity to not fuck the things I cannot stand, courage to fuck the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

Equanimity is a profound quality of mindfulness that cultivates the ability to let go. With equanimity, we can acknowledge that things are as they are, even though we may wish otherwise.

Inner peace is the key: if we have inner peace we will be able to deal with situations with calmness and reason.

Jon Kabat-Zinn reminds us, "There is far more right with us than wrong with us." Mindfulness gives us a way to reconnect with that basic rightness, even at times when "what's wrong" looms large.

put the least effort into dealing with a disturbing feeling that will do the job.

Alchemy is accepting everything in the pot without trying to reject or correct it—seeing that even the negative is part of the learning and healing.

Nurturing others can be very healing and nurturing for you, too—if you're not feeling deprived.

Don't put your purpose before your connection.

equanimity offers a great inner resource: a sense of nonreactivity, of patience and acceptance.

Their rule of thumb for classifying a state of mind was simple but profound: it depended on whether the mind state led to inner peace or disturbed the mind.

We each have our unique ways of responding to life's challenges, and we need to respect our own needs, temperament, and timing.

we've sacrificed our potential in a bargain to preserve connection.

I'm skimming over life and racing to the finish line—death.

Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure.

Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.

Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body.

The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine.

Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous

It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.

Find the joy where you can, and maintain the rage where it's needed.

I understand you only too well, but Rachel's needs are no less important than your desire to be part of history. Find a balance. Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.