Quotes About Balance

Free will is not always the most important thing

Consequently, every healing professional is in danger of impairment in some way to some extent

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.

God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.

Carlisle wondered if it was still possible for him to live alongside civilization and yet be somewhat apart from it. Find a slice of quiet in the layers of noise, conduct a rain into the noise now and then for some work, take the gold and run like hell back to the quiet place....Flight was no good. You couldn't escape it, whatever 'it' was.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Looking at the two major elements, the work and the person, the new ethic, simply but quite completely stated, will be: The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work. Put another way, the business exists as much to provide meaningful work to the person as it exists to provide a product or service to the customer.

Create Dangerously." And, as I ponder the fusing of servant and leader, it seems a dangerous creation: dangerous for the natural servant to become a leader, dangerous for the leader to be servant first, and dangerous for a follower to insist on being led by a servant.

Knowledge is but a tool. The spirit is of the essence.

We realize that anything can be everything and each is also its opposite-then the image of zero's perfect ring shines before us.

Decurion exposes and overturns the assumption that work is public and the personal is private, and so the personal should not be part of work. In the same way, Decurion rejects the idea of work-life balance as a simple goal or mantra. After all, if your life is everything outside the workplace, then that leaves a bleak notion of what work is—something that we're forced to trade off against joyful living.

Any honest person working in a DDO will tell you there are times she would like a holiday from the DDO experience, but after you've worked in one, an ordinary workplace becomes for many the nice place to visit and not the place where you want to live.

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

Our egos are the the chair of the board. And the board members are the archetypes within us. Each needs to be heard from. Each needs to stand on its own and provide its input. But the whole person under the supervision of the Ego needs to make the final decision in our lives.

if you are not in touch with the king in the other world, your life in this world is going to be a terrible mess.

We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Simplicity, like all virtues, is valuable because it is useful. I have come to understand that making life simpler does for our minds what getting in shape does for our bodies. It makes us feel more in control, more centered, more effective. And as with getting into shape, you have to want it sincerely, and you have to work at it consciously every day.

If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.

We focus so much on what the five senses tell us, and on what we want, and on how to use our will to create what we want, that we forget there is another side to our nature. This