If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.
If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.
I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.
To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
I wish I weren’t reeling at all.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
Sanity is a compromise.
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
Worse than madness. Sanity.
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.
A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.
