133 Quotes About Balance-in-life

What does greed mean? It means to take away things that belong to others.

In unfavorable circumstances, kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) occur, and in favorable circumstances, more kashays occur. However, the kashays of favorable circumstances are cold. Those are raag kashays (attachment kashays) and they include greed and deceit. Whereas, in unfavorable circumstances, there are dwesh kashays (abhorrence kashays) such as anger and pride.

This world exists because of greed. If you like to eat ‘jalebi’ (Indian sweet), and you are given three pieces while another person is given four pieces; you will get agitated in your mind! This is greed indeed. If you have three saris and you go out and buy a fourth one, it is greed!

Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances do not have bhaav (inner-intent) and you have bhaav. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One begins to breathe hard while going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the bhaav that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there!

The solidity of our soul, is not formed in the vastness of the arena;It's formed in a space that often has room for only one.

It's about finding that balance where you have one foot in the familiar, one foot in the unfamiliar.If you have two feet in the unfamiliar it's overwhelming.If you have two feet in the familiar then there's just boredom.It's about having both.

One May Think That Freedom From All Rules And Obligations Is Liberating, But When We Balance Our Lives With Right Kind Of Activities And Restrictions, We Could Fly Higher”.

Though the fox kills the chicken, and the bigger animals live on the little animals, what appears to be cruelty is a design of order in this universe, except for man. When man doesn't interfere, there is great beauty of balance and harmony.

You might not be happy as you didn't get something, but what you have already might be a dream for others to achieve.