Quotes About Balance

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

that the only goal for man was beauty, and that beauty was found only in harmony, and that this harmony of nature was a matter of dazzling complexity.

By whiteman's standards, Leaphorn thought, Bowlegs had a net worth of maybe one hundred dollars. The white world's measure of his life. And what would the Navajo measure be? The Dinee made a harder demand—that man find his place in the harmony of things.

where sophistication required the deeper and more difficult knowledge of how one walked in beauty, content in a difficult world?

If you live in a chronic state of stress and anxiety, it's inevitable that depression, fatigue, and a few extra pounds will be your constant companions. Having

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life.

In other words, God's love is not a characteristic of God. For example, maybe you've heard someone say, "Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice." Or, "Without justice, love is not possible." These statements talk of God's love as an attribute of God. But, for Eastern Christians, God's very nature is love. It's not an aspect of God's being, it is God's very being.

Maybe you've heard someone say, "Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice" or "Without justice, love is not possible." These statements speak of God's love as an attribute of God. But, for the Divinity model, God's very nature is love. Love is not an aspect of God's being; love is God's very being.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales...

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Life is not a task.

In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of beingness that presents itself in every moment.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

It can't always be a honeymoon

all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

What's the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

It's not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It's almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives.

Is the Life You're Living Worth the Price You're Paying to Live It?

We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization," argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

We arrive home in the evenings with little energy left for our families. We spend too little time thinking strategically and long term, too little time taking care of ourselves, and too little time simply enjoying our lives.

Para las personas que pasan sus vidas ayudando a la gente, el reto es valorar Igualmente sus propias necesidades para renovarse a sí mismas y poder servir a los otros con mayor eficacia