Quotes About Balance

The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

We're mourning and celebrating at the same time, so drink.

Yoga's an amazing release.

A single task won't crush your spirit. Give yourself a break

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design — do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

I am one with the universe. Who can lift that

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Throw your partner by not throwing, pin him by not pinning.

Eight forces sustain creation: Movement and stillness, Solidification and fluidity, Extension and contraction, Unification and division. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

your opponent is not really your opponent because you and your opponent become one.

True wisdom comes from intellectual education, physical education, ethical education, and ki education.

Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

The most perfect actions echo the patterns found in nature.