Quotes About Balance

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

All my work and all my dealings with people feel very easy. Actually, everything is simple. There is one straight road - if you open your eyes you can go along it. I don't see the need to search for all sorts of clever short cuts. Happiness and sadness are both on the road - there is no road that avoids them - but peace is found only on this road, nowhere else.

Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

THE fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Reality is the harmony which gives to the component parts of a thing the equilibrium of the whole.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

he feared that the flame of a prayer lamp that illuminated the home could also set the house on fire.

La verdad no está de parte de quien grite más

he had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings.

The blue of the sky longs for the earth's green; the wind between them sighs, "Alas." Day's pain, muffled by its own glare, burns among stars in the night.

I confess that a man, who is not within his place in the common society, can be guilty, but it's certain that no human being, like the sword, can stay always in his scabbard.

O bosque seria muito triste se só cantassem os pássaros que cantam melhor.

When this organization of politics and commerce, whose other name is the Nation, becomes all-powerful at the cost of the harmony of the higher social life, then it is an evil day for humanity

he has his responsibilities to the higher faculties of his nature, by ignoring which he may achieve success

But our fear is, that the poison may be more powerful than the food, and what is strength in her to-day may not be the sign of health, but the contrary; for it may be temporarily caused by the upsetting of the balance of life. Our fear is that evil has a fateful fascination, when it assumes dimensions which are colossal,—and though at last, it is sure to lose its centre of gravity, by its abnormal disproportion, the mischief which it creates before its fall may be beyond reparation.

Let me tell you something: remember that the heart is a wonderful thing, but not above all else.