Quotes About Balance

The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so. —SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI

learned that a person can only take so much. He found that taking on suffering had to be balanced with love and kindness, with the completeness of life.

Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

The basic thing is to realize that we have everything going for us. We don't have extreme pain that's inescapable. We don't have total pleasure that lulls us into ignorance. When we start feeling depressed, it's helpful to reflect on that. Maybe this is a good time to read the newspapers a lot and remember how terrifying life can be.

BEING ABLE to lighten up is the key to feeling at home with your body, mind, and emotions, to feeling worthy to live on this planet.

The law of karma is that we sow the seeds and we reap the fruit.

Emotions cannot take off and escalate if the mind is steady.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean

Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

When angry, count to Zen.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.