Quotes About Balance

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

You'll soon discover that although you feel time-poor, you are actually moment-rich.

Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a "problem" when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as "solving" a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to "shift gear" into "Being" mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

For maybe the first time in years, you're noticing in real time how the mind creates tension in the body. Soon you'll notice that the body also creates tension in the mind in a self-sustaining loop.

are you driven by the daily routines that force you to live in your head rather than in your life?

practice cultivating a sense of completeness

Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health." Jefferson

Remember this law of balance: Increase the number of approaches and decrease the impact of rejection. Susan

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

And yet it was hard for him to recall the last time he had enjoyed a long string of days of simple, mindless physical well-being.

Ajattele ajatuksesi loppuun, ja tapahdu maailman tahdissa, niin sinussa on rauha.

Fires are best fought with water: It puts out the flames without adding to the blaze.

There can't only be bad things in life, otherwise the world would cease," said Tungdil. "Enjoy what you have.

Routines are not prisons from which you try to escape. Routines are the framework for a peaceful life. Routines establish a series of habits that are strung into a logical succession of actions. When we don't establish routines, we inevitably make mistakes.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

Basically, everything we do is bad for something, and if we were to follow all the advice on the subject the only really healthy activity would be to be dead.

Los que piensan siempre tienen que renunciar a vivir, y los que viven no necesitan pensar.

Live gracefully in plenty and live gracefully in need. Embrace them both or swindle yourself out of half a life.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

I like to read about art. It also stimulates me to go and do something totally different in the middle of a sentence, or afterwards, like picking up a paintbrush for example. It is only that due to the overload of art historians, artists and other artrelated people, we are flooded by an overload of insipid writings, to such an extent that when you get to the right thing, you are too tired to read it.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Nature is subtle and complex.