Quotes About Balance

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.

Feelings, as deputies of homeostasis, are the catalysts for the responses that began human cultures.

The proclamation of bruised feelings, the desperate plea for the correction of individual pain and suffering, the inchoate cry for the loss of a never-achieved sense of inner balance and happiness to which most humans aspire are not likely to diminish soon.4 It would be foolish to ask medicine alone to heal a sick culture, but it is just as foolish to ignore that aspect of human disease.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

The people of the earth have it in their power to see that modern inventions are employed solely for their spiritual and material good.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the organization. The only way to have peace is to let it grow wild.

So you must "receive" your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.

When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.

Think of yourself in a concert hall listening to the strains of the sweetest music when you suddenly remember that you forgot to lock your car. You are anxious about the car, you cannot walk out of the hall and you cannot enjoy the music. There you have a perfect image of life as it is lived by most human beings.

Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever-moving stream of life.

la gente trata de ganar el mundo y cómo, al hacerlo, pierde su vida. Y es que viven unas vidas vacías, monótonas, sin alma...

If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings to the other.

Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor--it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

What we eat is a poem.

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence.