Duality Quotes

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

High and low rest on each other.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

The wings of Time are black and white,Pied with morning and with night.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

Saints need sinners.

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

Every moment, the sunlightis totally empty and totally full.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

For nothing was simply one thing.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

I am rooted, but I flow.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Life and death are one thread.

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

You are either free or not free

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night.Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together