Quotes about Opposites

Light and dark appear as opposites, and we've all learned to think of them as warring enemies. Duality is based on separation, yet the soul exists in harmony with everything, even darkness. Your shadow self knows this. As it holds negative energy for you, it tries to attract your attention, not to make you afraid or enraged or vindictive, but so that you can convert those feelings into understanding. Understanding is the light.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.