Quotes About Balance

La tierra de los jardines estaba pareja y las plantas, intactas.

Anger can be a problem if you find yourself on the receiving end of it. Because you witnessed violent anger, you expect all arguments or expressions of angry feelings to result in violence. This is simply not the case. Many of you grew up without a middle ground for expressing anger - it was either not expressed, or exploded into violence. A middle ground is safe anger expression. (See Chapter VI).

There is a middle road in which you don't hold back or push forward too much. That's the road to be explored.

The trouble is, I am not at peace with myself; I am not always something, and if for once I am something, I pay for it by being nothing for months on end.' —Kafka, quoted by Canetti

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Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Our sages teach us that two angels attach themselves to a man at birth and never leave him. One walks before and helps him climb mountains, the other follows in the shadows and pushes him toward his fall.

To write your memoirs is to draw up a balance sheet of your life so far.

The dream of nature is a complex web of mutuality in which each part supports the other.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.

Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

No se puede sanar al mundo sin sanarse primero a sí mismo.

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When life is enough, we don't need any more.

Estoy convencida de que para tener experiencias místicas no es necesario vivir como un ermita en la montaña ni estar sentado a los pies de un gurú de la India. Cada ser tiene un cuadrante físico, emocional, intelectual y espiritual

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.