Quotes About Balance

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

I never get far from Well Being.

I've already discovered how to hold myself within range.

Life is perfect, it glows.

You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.

Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.