Quotes About Equilibrium

When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.

once energy is no longer projected in strategy and end-gaining it returns to a state of equilibrium where everything remains peaceful and points towards silent awareness, within which all thoughts and perceptions come and go.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

The individual acts only if he experiences a need, i.e., if the equilibrium between the environment and the organism is momentarily upset, and action tends to re-establish the equilibrium, i.e., to re-adapt the organism (Claparède).

Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field.

intelligence, the most plastic and at the same time the most durable structural equilibrium of behaviour, is essentially a system of living and acting operations.

to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Your balance is imbalance.

Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime.

when asked his philosophy of life, he replied, "Moderation in all things.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

There is a middle road in which you don't hold back or push forward too much. That's the road to be explored.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

the Upanishads suggest that so-called chaos may have an actual divine function, even if you personally can't recognize it right now: The best we can do, then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally-no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Los ingredientes de la oscuridad y los de la luz están presentes en todos nosotros y depende del individuo (o de la familia, de la sociedad) decidir qué va a potenciar: sus virtudes o su malevolencia. La locura de este planeta procede, en gran parte, de la incapacidad humana para alcanzar un equilibrio personal virtuoso. La demencia (colectiva e individual) es la consecuencia.

If all we do is immerse ourselves in the stories of bad people doing bad things to each other and the planet, we will sink under the weight of a lopsided story.

At present I am chiefly concerned to drive home the fact that it is the great disparity between the rapid progress of the natural and technological sciences on the one hand and the slow progress of the metaphysical, so-called social "sciences" on the other hand, that sooner or later so disturbs the equilibrium of human affairs as to result periodically in those social cataclysms which we call insurrections, revolutions and wars.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

An ignorant person will always overdo a thing or neglect it totally.

Reason is only one part of the souls economy and requires a balance of the other parts in order to function properly.