Quotes About Balance

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The

Mind and body were well or ill together.

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit

Children do divide a woman, in an odd sort of way.

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again

There is no dignity to life except with order

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Can there be true equality in the classroom and the boardroom if there isn't in the bedroom?

Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

A Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He said it was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind. The young man asked his grandfather which wolf would win the fight in his heart. And the grandfather answered, "The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if you can be willing to feel fully and acknowledge continually your own sadness and the sadness of life, but at the same time not be drowned in it, because you also remember the vision and power of the Great Eastern Sun, you experience balance and completeness, joining heaven and earth, joining vision and practicality.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Casteneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness.

May we all learn that pain is not the end of the journey, and neither is delight. We can hold them both—indeed hold it all—at the same time, remembering that everything in these quixotic, unpredictable, unsettled and unsettling, exhilarating and heart-stirring times is a doorway to awakening in sacred world.

This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don't do either of those things.

do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all.

The trick is not getting caught in hope and fear.