Quotes about Duality

Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

According to an ancient Upanishad, the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other lovingly looks on.

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.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.