Balance

From the perspective of our Work, generally speaking, three elements need to be balanced or need to stay in balance as a person is engaged in the process of development. Basically, the three things are understanding, being, and doing. Most individuals tend to emphasize one of these over the other two. Some people are more balanced towards the understanding aspects of human experience. Some people are balanced more towards the being elements, the actual felt experience part. And some people are balanced more towards the action, the doing part of human experience. This imbalance creates a disharmony that affects all three elements. Our work involves developing these three elements into a harmonious unity, and this involves balancing them. A constant balancing needs to happen again and again. (Diamond Heart Book 4, pg 65)

Human development has three elements or three stages. One is that of understanding and knowledge, as in insights and intuitions. Then there is realization, which is abiding in beingness. After that is the state of doing, which is the embodiment of the beingness and the knowledge in your life, in how you live your life. (Diamond Heart Book 4, pg 67)

Balance and truth

Balancing does not lead only to the truth; it leads to the correct relationship to the truth. The more your consciousness is balanced, the more you cannot help but like the truth. You don’t like it because it is good to like the truth. You don’t like it simply because it is useful to like the truth, or because it is more spiritual to like the truth, or because it is more practical to like the truth. You just like it. It is the nature of the balanced human consciousness, the nature of the soul – when it is acting normally in its natural functioning – to love truth, because truth is the very nature of the soul and of all reality. (Diamond Heart Book 4, pg 78)