In everything, there is a balance. When there is imbalance, you right yourself. In life in the world, you yearn for balance.
How perfect is the moment when you are at that pivot of balance. Then you are a ballet dancer in life, and movement is swift, and movement lifts you and your spirits as well. You are at that point when all is right with the world.
You want to be an acrobat in life with that perfect balance on the high wire and on the ground.
How you yearn to move like a breeze. How you long to be light as air. Beloveds, balance gives you that.
It is yourself you want to balance, of course. You want to be just right in life, not to go too far this way or that way, but to be just right. Nor does balance in life mean that you stay in the middle. It doesn't mean you aim to be in the middle of the road. You can also be balanced and leap! You can be a high jumper.
Your point of balance doesn't depend on the heights or the low. It depends on something within you.
What you want is equanimity. Equanimity is a lot like peace. Equanimity is taking life in your stride. It is not minding so much what befalls. It is walking along even when the weather of life may be inclement.
Balance does not mean staying on the ground nor does balance mean flights of fancy, nor does balance mean taking that middle road, nor does it necessarily mean taking the line of least resistance or falling where you may. Balance does mean that you don't protest too much.
I want to tell you that you cannot aim too high. I want to tell you to aim high. I also want to tell you that the beauty is in the aiming. What you aim for does not have to be achieved. You don't have to have it. In order to live, you don't have to have the aiming either, yet what is life on Earth without the aiming for the heights? Without the aiming, you plod.
Beloved, you are not an ox who is to plod. You are a human being who is to soar. You are to fly with the angels. Did you not know that?
Did you think you were to merely pull a plow on Earth?
Here's the wonderful thing about life on Earth. You can pull the plow, and you can be soaring at the same time. This is the meaning of being human and Divine. The human and Divine can be in tandem, and you can be aware of this beautiful balance, not that you can measure this balance.
If you consider life a tightrope you walk, and you are the ballerina dancing on the rope, as soon as you would start to measure your balance, you may well lose it.
You cannot put your humanness and your Divinity on a scale. It is not that you are to be half each. Not at all. You can be 100% each. You can enjoy your humanness fully, and you can enjoy your Divinity fully. The balancing act is not really a race or a counting match between the two.
You and I are One. And while you are on Earth, the human and the Divine can also be One. Let your humanness serve the Divine. The Divine is always serving you.