#balance

Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complete each other. Long and short define each other.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

When you stand with both feet firmly on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.

If you tamper with it, you will ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you will lose it.

Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself; for overcoming is bitterness, and badly sleepeth the unreconciled.

The art of living does not consist in careless drifting on the one hand or in fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment.

Light cannot exist without darkness, nor solid without space. They go together like crest and trough of a wave.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Through the creation of mandalas, the soul heals itself and restores its inner balance.

Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

The end of labor is to gain leisure, and the end of war is to cultivate peace.

In all things moderation is best; for excess and deficiency alike ruin virtue.

Temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and defect, and preserved by the mean.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons, and also in the right manner and at the right moment and for the right length of time.

We make war that we may live in peace.

To be too much dissatisfied with oneself is a weakness; to be too much satisfied with oneself is a stupidity.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The middle path avoids all painful extremes.

Keep your vision high and your heart humble.

Knowledge without love is cold; love without knowledge is blind.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.