Quotes About Balance

biocultural or reciprocal restoration.

They succeed by matching the unique properties of their form to the physical laws of interaction between air and earth.

Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away. Hoarding the gift, we become constipated with wealth, bloated with possessions, too heavy to join the dance.

Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now let us bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks

That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

Restoring a habitat, no matter how good intentioned, produces casualties. We set ourselves us as arborators of what is good, when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests. By what we want.

When I stare too long at the world with science eyes, I see an afterimage of traditional knowledge. Might science and traditional knowledge be purple and yellow to one another, might they be goldenrod and asters? We see the world more fully when we use both.

There was a time when I teetered precariously with an awkward foot in each of two worlds - the scientific and the Indigenous. But then I learned to fly. Or at least try. It was the bees that showed me how to move between different flowers - to drink the nectar and gather pollen from both. It is this dance of cross-pollination that can produce a new species of knowledge, a new way of being in the world. After all, there aren't two worlds, there is just this one good green earth.

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.           ââ'¬â€ Ayurvedic Proverb

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

My favorite prayer is, 'Dear God. I'll pedal if You'll steer.

I have no intention of being reckless," she said. "I just don't want to waste away in a lab or library while life goes on around me.

Mac was the romantic. He brought her flowers, remembered her favorite song, kissed her on the back of her neck just because. She was the type-A workaholic. Every day an agenda, every hour a task that needed completing. She worked too hard, compartmentalized too little, and probably would have a nervous breakdown before the age of forty, except that Mac would never allow it. He was her rock; while, most likely, she was his ticket to sainthood.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

Things can get so hectic sometimes that we forget to stop and enjoy life, live a little.

Life isn't about love and heaven forbid marriage be. It's about getting along.

Hamilton also knew that the government needed a police force to ensure that the two elected branches, the legislature and the executive, did not overstep their bounds in an effort to hang onto power.

if you ask me, law leads to order, not necessarily justice.

That at certain times, everything will fall surprisingly into place, even on a humid summer afternoon, with her feet in a baby pool. And in those times, justice and love will look so much alike that they will become the very same thing.

The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.

built up on stilts.

eating for two.

She always tried to be professional, but she'd been so professional that she'd almost killed someone.