Quotes About Balance

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking ' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

Reconciliation occurs between equals.

If your problems are physical, you can also intuitively picture a square around the entirety of the field; this shape will keep you safe until you heal. If your challenges are relational in nature, use a circle, and if they're mental, try a triangle.

Having strong yet fluid relational boundaries is like wearing the zipper of our hearts on the inside rather than on the outside of us. Our true self is able to decide when to open our hearts and let someone in, or when we're open to stepping out and mingling. If we're tired or need a little time alone, we can close ourselves up a little bit or zip up entirely to get the rest we need.

During your nonwork time, consider doing energetic-based exercises, such as qi gong, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, or karate. When performing these activities, focus on your intention. Running, walking, or biking before or after work or during lunch break are excellent ways to release others' energies and rev up your own.

The healing forces go out, and what replaces them but the energy that others are trying to get rid of. Out goes the energetic cure for the other person's cold, and chances are, in comes the energy of cold itself. Out goes your compassion and wisdom, and in comes the other person's depression and confusion. The hardest part of being a healer isn't that you are helping; you like helping. It's that you become burdened with the problems you are fixing.

A clockwise spiral draws in desirable energy, filling in boundary holes and attracting life-enhancing support.

A counterclockwise spiral carries others' energy out of you, thus clearing both your field and your body. Imagine any negative energy spiraling out of your hips, through your field, and then to the higher heavens.

If psychically sensitive, we'll be aware of every mood, activity, or need of the living and the dead, yet have no one taking care of us. Healers are often the worst off, because the world is full of people happy to deposit their problems in someone else's energy field and steal love in return. And those of us sensitive to the environment will feel for every living being everywhere, but lack the power to help the great or the small.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Today, at any moment, more water rushes through the atmosphere than flows through all the world's rivers combined.

We are predators and destroyers but also builders and repairers.

His bigger body dwarfed hers, but he'd always been so careful when they touched. When they made love. His strength had always been in check.

the absence of activity in her life is matched by the phenomenal activity of her intellect

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.

One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.