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“Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.”

Balance Safe Edges Life Balance Precarious Ledges

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?”

Hands Left Space Planets Needed Balance Edges Surface Adam Abyss Left Alone

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.”

Men Art Science Order Easy Struggle Mystery Creation He Man Balance Chaos Edges Familiar Novelty Synthesis Easy Life

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.”

Lying Balance Edges Primaries Cosmos Emergence Precarious

Book:Order and History

Source: Order and History

“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.”

Way Lines Teaching Middle Balance Enlightenment Edges Buddhist Appropriate Yellow Highways Dharma Lanes Razors Middle Way

Author:Surya Das