“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.” ThinkingUnderstandingBalanceTrackDetermineScalesGiantsReincarnationSantaSanta ClausAllotments Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.” UnderstandingCommonWiseSeeingBalancePerceptionCommon SensePsychicsIntuitive 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
“Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.” HelpingUnderstandingWorkCreativityBalanceAddVicesDeeperDimensionsNurturePersonal LifeVice VersaProfessional LifeDeeper Understanding Author:Kathy Ireland
“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.” WorldWarUnderstandingEnemyCenturyColdBalanceWeaknessMeetingsAlternativesMutualCold WarFormalDeclarationFifthSummitTwentieth CenturyPursuedColumnsDisarmamentPeace WarSabotageStrength And WeaknessProxyBalance Of PowerMutual UnderstandingDeclaration Of War Book:Peace on Earth Source: Peace on Earth
“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.” MindHelpingBeliefUnderstandingLinesSimpleViewsBalanceIntellectualSolutionsFaultsPoint Of ViewAbsenceConcentrationRemedyImaginativeOne LineSimple Solutions Author:Geoffrey Elton
“The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.” WayChildrenDoeHomeUnderstandingShareExampleMomBalanceSolutionsValleysQuartersClientsIntegrationFamily LifeIntegratingBuzzWork Life BalanceSiliconLife BalanceSilicon ValleyNew PlacesWork And Life BalanceBusiness Trips Author:Willow Bay
“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.” ThinkingWantMeanIdeasSometimesSeemsAmericaCultureUnderstandingGrowing UpGrowingBalanceEvidenceEuropeClaimsNotionWhat You WantAwfulFrankContinentsSophisticatedCompetingCrowdedYour Freedom Author:Douglas Adams
“Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.” UnderstandingLossPoorCompanyBalanceFinanceSheetsBalance Sheets Book:Beating the Street Source: Beating the Street
“When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow.” IfsHas BeensPlayDesireHumanityOpportunityGrowsUnderstandingChallengesPerfectLaughingCryBecomingBalanceBurdenShouldersOpportunities To LearnPerfect Balance Author:Bryan Kest
“I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.” ShouldHumansIdeasLawHateUnderstandingViewsHuman NatureBalanceAbusePoliceCorruptionChecksRadicalMeatAdequateButchersInspectorsRadical Ideas Author:Van Jones
“We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense of our country's unique place in it. This is a foreign policy debate, and you cannot conduct foreign policy without a sense of what we are fighting for. And any President who can reduce the conduct of this country's affairs to a morning's attack by a bunch of demented fascists does not, in my view, understand what this great nation is all about.” FightingUnderstandingPresidentLeaderPolicyBalanceUniqueAffairDebateForeign PolicyDemented Author:John F. Kerry
“Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.” KnowsBelieveLooksSometimesUnderstandingChallengesResultsCuttingProduceFineBalanceTasteOrdinaryOvercomingErrorsProfoundPatientCooksHeatRelyChemistryCakeSublimeMeasurementGood MarriageCompatibilitySouffle Author:Julia Glass
“How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.” Life IsTurnsUnderstandingPersonalityBalanceShapesDeterminedMemorableTensionAccurateOverview Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues