Quotes About Balance

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They

As Mang flies between the beasts and birds, so fly I between the village and the jungle. Why?

Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.

Trees and men do not grow together

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

He can take it and leave it, which is a much happier condition than having to do one or the other. He's not sure how this

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and energetic and kept their numbers within ecologically reasonable limits. The captive egrets were promiscuous, idle, overbreeding and presumably going to hell fast.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going?

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Man's rights are linked with man's duties, and when they are distorted into extravagant claims for a species of freedom and equality and worldly aggrandizement which human character cannot sustain, they degenerate from rights to vices.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. And finally

slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.

Why should one expect that a woman great in intellect should not love greatly, too?

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

They were all overachievers with exploding heads, and this was not a good thing . . . or was it?

At one extreme...the hours seemed to aggregate and sell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day. At the other extreme when her attention was disengaged and fractured she experienced time at its most granular wherein moments hung around like particles diffused and suspended and standing in water. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focussed but vast and time felt like a limpid pool ringed by sunlit ferns.

Waves and starlings, pebbles and crows . . .