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Whether we find happiness through grand adventures, or seek it in every-day places, we all want less pain and more joy. Quest for Balance is a place where people can be reminded that finding lasting happiness and inner peace is not only achievable, b
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Inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe: Alone
* From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; An...
Inspiration from T. Alan Armstrong: Become Your Passion
* “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you, and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.” * I’d like to take a mo...
Inspiration from Pema Chodron: Everyone and Everything
* “Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it’s important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, wh...
Inspiration from Marcel Murrell (1916 – 2009)
“Be kind today. Drop a letter, a note, a DM, a comment, a tweet to someone just because.” (Marcel Murrell) * I borrowed this image of Marcel from Tammy, who first introduced me to him on facebook a few months ago. His beautiful soul has...
Inspiration: Helen Keller “Great and Noble Tasks”
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes ...
Inspiration: Nobody Trips Over Mountains
“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” * Recently, a reader shared this passage with me, and it really got me t...
Inspiration from Dr. Wayne Dyer: Be Like Water
* “Water does not seek the high spots to be above it all, but settles for the lowest places. It gathers into rivers, lakes, and streams; courses to the sea; and then evaporates to fall again as rain. It maps out nothing and it plays no favorit...
Inspiration from Yoko Ono: Seasons Pass
* Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. * Fall has always been m...
Inspiration from Ralph Waldo Emerson: A New Day
* Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with ...
Inspiration from Brenda Short: Thank You
* Do not ask to have your life’s load lightened, But for courage to endure. Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, But for patience to accept frustration. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, But for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes....
Inspiration from Christopher Reeve: What is a Hero?
This is a passage from the book, Still Me, by Christopher Reeve. *** When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked, “What is a hero?” I remember the glib response I repeated so many times. My answer was that a hero is s...
Inspiration from Edna St.Vincent Millay: Renascence
* I know not how such things can be!— I breathed my soul back into me. Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Li...
Inspiration from A Bee Movie: Nothing is Impossible
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossi...
Inspiration from the Dalai Lama: In Every Moment
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something… more money, security, affection; or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you ...
Inspiration from Rainer Maria Rilke: Feelings
All feelings are pure which gather you and lift you up; a feeling is impure which takes hold of only one side of your being and so distorts you. Everything that you could think in the light of your childhood is good. Everything which makes more of yo...
Inspiration from Paulo Coelho “Two Drops of Oil”
A merchant sent his son to learn The Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was lookin...
Inspiration from Dr. Seuss: “The Waiting Place”
The Waiting Place… …for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for th...
Inspiration from Albert Einstein: “A Human Being”
* A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion i...
Inspiration from Kahlil Gibran: “On Joy & Sorrow”
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hol...
Inspiration from Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata”
You know, I had planned to highlight some lines of this poem that you should pay particular attention to. But I realized, there are too many. It is tempting to skim through Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata” to find the point of the s...
Inspiration From the Dalai Lama
At one of the Dalai Lama’s talks he was asked, “Why is prayer important for a spiritual life?” His reply was that prayer (meditation) is, “A simple daily reminder of your deeply held principles and convictions.” Another ...
