Quotes About Balance

Ah, Colorado: the one place in America where people wake up earlier on weekends than workdays.

Moreover, equality should not be confused with perfection, for man is also imperfect, making his application of equality, even in the most just society, imperfect.

If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

In a similar vein, Taoism identifies freedom with wu wei: acting without acting.

No matter how much you write and do other things, make time to read.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —ARISTOTLE

My writing is how I maintain.

Gymnasts don't become dizzy, because they have kinesthetic body awareness, which is a fancy way of saying they know where they are at all times. Gymnastics made me so flexible that I could do the splits. It made me so strong that at one point I

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, "The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

In modern faith our certainty has replaced love. A healthy faith walk is a collision of both. Enough certainty and conviction to walk out life pursuing Christ and holiness—but enough love to draw others (even those who do not agree with our conviction) to Christ. Conviction without love is just an angry opinion.

yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce

Perfection in an asana is achieved when the effort to achieve it becomes effortless, and the infinite being within is reached.

Even when choosing stillness we are still moving, our hearts beating, breath flowing, all our systems at work.

not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person

The eight-limbed path, or ashtanga yoga, is: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

How can a man hope to promote peace in the world if he has not made it possible in his own life and his own household?

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

the "environment" is not a place we vacation to gaze at warblers, but our home, the one and only garden that feeds us. In

There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.