Balanced Person Quotes

“The world doesn’t need balanced people. Every person should have an idée fixe, an obsession. Only then the world will function well. Like numerous drones doing their part in a beehive, such obsessed people could then contribute to the world. Individually, such people may appear weird, but together they will make our world a much bearable place. Balanced people do not enrich this world; not at all. They are happier, though. We all need to have a monomania. We all need an all-consuming passion.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“The Balanced Person simply does not add worldly affairs to his or her 'tale of woes.' For instance, if a Balanced Person is fired, he or she does not list among his or her problems: wars in the Middle East and Inner City crime. The Balanced Person feels his or her feelings, without distorting, exaggerating, or inflating the feeling to the point where he or she becomes Unbalanced. It is necessary and good to feel all your feelings; it is unhelpful to become the victim of inflated emotional reactions to your problems.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis