Quotes About Balance

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 semiverdades; todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse. EL KYBALIÓN

Matéria, energia, mente e espírito.

Conservai sempre a vossa mente nas estrelas, mas deixai os vossos olhos verem os vossos passos para não cairdes na lama, por causa da vossa contemplação de cima. Lembrai-vos do paradoxo divino, que ao mesmo tempo que o Universo não existe, ele existe. Lembrai-vos sempre dos dois Pólos da Verdade: o Absoluto e o Relativo. Tomai cuidado com as Meias-Verdades.

Os instrutores previnem constantemente os seus discípulos contra o erro de omitir o outro lado de cada questão.

Toda causa tiene su efecto; todo efecto tiene su causa; todo sucede de acuerdo con la ley; azar no es sino un nombre para una ley no reconocida; hay muchos planos de causación, pero nada escapa a la ley. El Kybalión.

Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations....

Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates

The Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.

But this may be said here, that those who have attained high spiritual powers and have misused them, have a terrible fate in store for them, and the swing of the pendulum of Rhythm will inevitably swing them back to the furthest extreme of Material existence, from which point they must retrace their steps Spiritward, along the weary rounds of The Path, but always with the added torture of having always with them a lingering memory of the heights from which they fell owing to their evil actions.

The legends of the Fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts, as all advanced occultists know. The striving for selfish power on the Spiritual Planes inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back as far as it had previously risen. But to even such a soul, the opportunity of a return is given — and such souls make the return journey, paying the terrible penalty according to the invariable Law.

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.

eating with ignorance turns nourishment into poison and kills us.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

being cleansed in the spacelike meditative equipoise,

Are you not sunk in the mires of a household?

Remain in equipoise on this spacelike nature, my son.

no matter where you go, due to karma you will find enemies and friends.

Focus the mind with ease, lucidity, and vibrancy, not allowing it to fall under the influence of either dullness or excitation. This is presented by the following line: Place your mind on the basis-of-all, the actual path.175 You should identify the ordinary mind and place it in a state free of negation or affirmation.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

In other words, they are doing the necessary therapy to understand their trauma-related issues, but they are ignoring the needs of their bodies and not balancing their daily stressors with support and stress relief.