Quotes About Balance

We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

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. That attitude leads to more appreciation and less burnout, because we do the job wholeheartedly and we care.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but 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.

we are all a paradoxical bundle of rich potential that consists of both neurosis and wisdom.

we ourselves can sort out what to accept and what to reject. We can discern what will make us complete, sane, grown-up people, and what—if we are too involved in it—will keep us children forever. This is the process of making friends with ourselves and with our world. It involves not just the parts we like, but the whole picture, because it all has a lot to teach us.

Discipline provides the support to slow down enough and be present enough so that we can live our lives without making a big mess. It provides the encouragement to step further into groundlessness.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Castaneda 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.

When you prefer soup and the telly to a few hours with your lover there is something not quite right.

I simply wanted to remind you that a man without sleep, food and leisure is indistinguishable from a man without charity, patience or a sense of humour.

Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you're not asking for anything.

Não se deve morder a mão que nos dá a comida.

A amizade é assim, tem sempre dois lados e devemos realçar o melhor.

There is a danger in becoming an overly perfected meat eater only—a person who becomes spiritually fat on the meat and can become critical of a church or believer who is not on the same level of the deeper knowledge he or she is experiencing. This becomes pride.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

Those who hasten to be wise (...) have some times lost their own Wits.

It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

Water is a great leveller...On water all are at an equal level.

There was more barley than beef in his stew.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Effective executives do not race. They set an easy pace but keep going steadily.

Setting a posteriority is also unpleasant. Every posteriority is somebody else's top priority. It is much easier to draw up a nice list of top priorities and then to hedge by trying to do "just a little bit" of everything else as well. This makes everybody happy. The only drawback is, of course, that nothing whatever gets done.