Quotes About Balance

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

if there's never any pause—we will never be able to relax.

How we stay in the middle between indulging and repressing is by acknowledging whatever arises without judgment, letting the thoughts simply dissolve, and then going back to the openness of this very moment.

If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. (...). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

As swans swim on the lake and vultures roam in the charnel ground, you can let your mind rest in its natural state.

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.

The old joke is that a Buddhist is someone who is either meditating or feeling guilty about not meditating.

When we practice discipline with flexibility, we become less moralistic and more tolerant.

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

Estaba demasiado ocupada para ver el sol.» Ella se rió y me dijo: «¡Demasiado ocupada para vivir la vida!»

It's up to you how the law of karma all works out.

If today the instruction is to put everything on the right, one does that as impeccably as one can. When tomorrow the instruction is to put everything on the left, one does that with one's whole heart. The idea of one right way sort of dissolves into the mist.

the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Change your attitude, but remain natural.

refraining is very much the method of becoming a dharmic person. It's the quality of not grabbing for entertainment the minute we feel a slight edge of boredom coming on. It's the practice of not immediately filling up space just because there's a gap.

Then I remembered: sitting still in the middle of a fire or a tornado or an earthquake or a tidal wave, sitting still. This provides the opportunity to experience once again the living quality of our life's energy—earth, air, fire, and water.