Balanced Relationship Quotes

• Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

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  Margaret Mead

  Mother   Writing   Self  

  1268

• If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

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  David Korten

  Life   Earth   Balanced Relationship  

  3209

• Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism   Two   People  

  4957

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

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  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country   Islamic   Mean  

  2475

• It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an emotion, for example, and struggle against it right away, there is not going to be a lot of learning going on. In the same way, if we are swamped by that emotion, overcome by it, there won't be enough space for there to be learning or insight.

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  Sharon Salzberg

  Struggle   Space   Way  

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  3627

• There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Women   Masculine And Feminine   Rising Up  

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.39, Ballantine Books

  1299

• The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for the sake of a balanced relationship, bound to turn a blind eye to obvious, blatant violations of human rights and the deconstruction of democratic institutions in these countries.

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  Garry Kasparov

  Country   Eye   Violation Of Human Rights  

  Source: www.rferl.org

  1959