Quotes About Balance

our body is an ecosystem. This ecosystem must be maintained . . .

Our body teaches us that health lies in balance and harmony, rather than in conflict and fighting.

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

Confucius said, "at 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the mandate of heavan; at 60 my ear was attuned; at 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of what was right.

Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.

By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point," "When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

A tree does not complain That the earth is too dry or too rough That the rains do not come often With patience, forgiveness and harmony It does its best... fulfilling its mission.

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide and long perspective, one thing is very clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around, and the only way we can protect ourselves and thrive is by learning how to live with the whole in harmony.

Continuous external growth, like continuous inhaling, is not sustainable. But because we have been inhaling for so long, consuming for so long, even though we see that it can't go on this way, we don't know how to alter the pattern. We have to recover our natural sense of balance . . . only when we exhale can we inhale again, and that's how life continues.

For most people, meditation is associated with relaxation and peace of mind, and these are the practical reasons many people seek out, learn, and practice meditation. However, relaxation and peace of mind are only half of the uses of meditation. The other, probably more important aspect, is for creation.

Breathing is the master key of life.

getting back into the rhythmn of a happy, healthy life

Vice? Virtue? It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. As Confucius says, 'Don't simply be good. Make good things happen.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

ON BUSY BASTARDS: A busy bastard can't stop finding things to do. He never rests and as a result, his staff never rests. He's always making work that expands to fill whatever time is available. The point I make in my book is: Be busy, work hard, but don't become so busy that you cut out other things in life, like family and recreation and hobbies. And never be so busy that you're not giving your staff and your followers enough time to do the same thing.

Perpetual optimism is a force leveler

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage. Good chaplains pick up the pieces and put everything together again.

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.