Eliphas Levi Quotes

At the still point, there the dance is.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Nature is harmony in discord.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.