Quotes About Balance

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

Everyone gets to go crazy in long-term relationships, but you have to take turns. I call this relational integrity. It means that you hold the (Wise Adult) fort while your partner goes off their (Adaptive Child) rails. It's not an easy practice, but it builds strong relational muscles.

Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.

If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

When will pleasure crash with regret?

Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength.

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub.

Health is a relationship between you and your body.

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.

Don't let it be all in your head, nor all in your body.

How do I find my tune, my song, my personal harmony that's healing because it's me?

Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.

One can only see clearly When one is going slowly Quick motion creates a life-blur.

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.