Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes about Balance

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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Love You, Balance, One Love

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Light, Darkness, Balance

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Balance, Sometimes

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.312, Bloomsbury Publishing

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Light, Darkness, Balance

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Perfect, Balance, Needs

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.238, Bloomsbury Publishing

the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Numbers, Perfect, Balance