Quotes About Balance

the Many returning to and embracing the One is Good, and is known as wisdom; the One returning to and embracing the Many is Goodness, and is known as compassion.

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!

That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy—not ascetically starved and despised—it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

It seems that only when Ascending and Descending are united can both be saved. And if we—if you and I—do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only Heaven we might otherwise embrace.

All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.

desorientación en el reino de la abundancia

that which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.

Compromise is the seed that kills destiny.

I had figured out something that seemed important: every bird had its place. None was "free as a bird." A few kinds were found all over the continent, but they were the exceptions.

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

The power of the world always works in circles.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Power should be a check on power.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.