Daily Meditation: Sunday, April 25, 2010

Psychic balance - controlling the necessary inner fluctuations

04/25/2010

Psychic balance is one of the most precious and most difficult qualities to acquire, for it is the result of two contradictory motions. You see some people talking, walking and busying themselves as if nothing were any effort for them, and you may think they are balanced, but no, actually they are stagnating. Day in, day out, they are always the same as ever, showing the same impassive face, replaying yesterday's actions, repeating yesterday's words, and so on. That is not the kind of balance that will make them evolve. A certain imbalance is necessary for our progress, provided we remain watchful and are able to put things right when the pans of the scales begin to register too great a difference in level. Balance consists therefore in still allowing some inner fluctuation to take place. The day both sides are perfectly in balance, you cannot call it balance anymore but death. Life is found in the measured fluctuations of the scales.