Quotes About Balance

No matter what ya do to help somebody, it'll hurt somebody else.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Never struggle with anyone or anything. When you're pushed, pull; when you're pulled, push.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

Make peace within, and there will be no one who can overcome you. And no one you will wish to overcome.

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous

For example, you have a cold now; its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

Socrates, how do I stop my thoughts, my mind - other than by developing a sense of humor? -First you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. For example, you have a cold now; Its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

In life, stress happens when you resist... No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain. Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which — like any pain — signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it.

have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.

A helpful rainsquall washed the papaya juice from my face and hands and chest; then the sun dried me, and the wind blow-dried my hair and beard.

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.

The Way creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom.

Emotions, no matter how painful, are not the problem. The problem is dropping out of school or work, putting your family or duties or life on hold until such time as you can work out your emotional issues. Would you rather feel depressed while sitting alone in your room trying to figure it all out or feel depressed while getting your house cleaned or your project completed? (You may still feel depressed, but you have a cleaner house.)

If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, What am I? And if not now, when? — Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.