The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.
Interpretation
Personal responsibility is key to achieving life balance and aligning dreams with daily actions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking personal responsibility for one's life and recognizing that the imbalance between our dreams and our daily realities is often due to our choices and habits. It highlights that awareness and intentionality in our daily actions are essential for achieving the life we aspire to lead.
In practice
This quote could be used during a motivational speech about personal growth and responsibility.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.
Do your work, but do your thing.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.
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