Quotes About Balance

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — SPINOZA DUTCH PHILOSOPHER

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.

In charting one's course in life, it is important never to forget that many things that cannot be called wrong or evil are nevertheless not good for us.

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Tension is the medium in which we breathe every day.

Sabbath is not a break from work; it is a redefinition of how we work, why we work, and how we create freedom through our work.

Pleasure is a good thing. But it is the dessert of life, not the meal.

Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry... the endless contest of ight and dark.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice your happiness trying.' 

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.

Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.

Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order.

Culling is God's Natural Order. Ask yourself, What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth.

Dilema yang sangat terkenal dalam dunia mitologi: pertarungan abadi antara otak & hati, yang seringkali menginginkan hal yang berlawanan. (Apollo-Dionysus)

I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.