Quotes About Balance

a duality in which there is no other opposition than that of the inner and the outer of the same unity, the polarity which is inherent in all Being,

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

In your country," a young Saudi doctor told him "you protect the rights of the individual at the expense of society." In Saudi Arabia, Seymour Gray concluded, it is the other way around.

First, see if you can make three positive comments for every negative one (and, by the way, a count is one negative comment).

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others is the symptom of a disordered Christian.

La piedad consiste en una armonía exacta entre principios y prácticas piadosas

Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.

A good thing is good, but more than enough of a good thing is too much.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.

Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Most rájött arra a titokra, melybÅ'l sohase gyógyulunk meg, hogy még a legtökéletesebb szerelemben is egyikünk kevésbé mélyen szeret, mint másikunk. Mindketten egyformán jók lehetünk, egyformán tehetségesek és szépek is; de sohase lehet két ember, aki egyformán szereti egymást.

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.

en todo hay dos polos o aspectos opuestos, y que los "opuestos" son realmente sólo los dos extremos de la misma cosa, con una variación de grado entre ellos.

Bien y mal no son sino los polos de la misma cosa

The further the creation is from the Centre, the more it is bound; the nearer the Centre it reaches, the nearer Free is it.

1. The Principle of Mentalism. 2. The Principle of Correspondence. 3. The Principle of Vibration. 4. The Principle of Polarity. 5. The Principle of Rhythm. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. 7. The Principle of Gender.

Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.

And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. Read it carefully!

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.