“Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.” MistakeTeacherBuddhismBalanceGainsBuddhistDestructiveUnhappinessEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.” HappensBuddhismBalanceCaringThings HappenBuddhistVanityGentleEtiquetteEgotismPoisePossessiveness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."” ThinkingWayWantMindSoulMiddleBalanceBuddhistDataEncountersMiddle Way Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.” WayLinesTeachingMiddleBalanceEnlightenmentEdgesBuddhistAppropriateYellowHighwaysDharmaLanesRazorsMiddle Way Author:Surya Das