Out of Balance

Living in the Meantime with Stephen Bauman · Dec 31, 2025 · 2m

There’s a common complaint I hear from a wide array of people. They’ll state this complaint in different ways, and experience it somewhat differently, but it boils down to this: their lives are out of balance. They have some of one thing, but not nearly enough of another. They feel off kilter; lopsided, both overfull and strangely empty. An old Indian proverb says that “everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we’re…