Quotes About Duality

agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions;

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. —JOSEPH CONRAD

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

The expression of emptiness is love, because emptiness means "emptiness of self." When there is no self, there is no other. That duality is created by the idea of self, of I, of ego. When there's no self, there is a unity, a communion. And without the thought of "I'm loving someone," love becomes the natural expression of that oneness.

Little by little, or maybe all at once, everything comes to mean its opposite; unreason argues itself into reason, and vice versa, and we cannot see the seams.

The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and energizing friction that define a creative pair.

I became sensitive, or at least hypocritical.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

She had some horses. She had some horses she loved. She had some horses she hated. These were the same horses.

Maybe then we will see the design of the two-minded creature And know why half the world fights righteously for greedy masters And the other half is nailing it all back together

But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play?

Imagine que en el mismo espacio que ocupa usted con su cuerpo verdadero, existe otro cuerpo, el cuerpo imaginario de su personaje, que usted ha creado en su mente. MICHAEL CHEKHOV

She is frightened but she is thrilled. She is thrilled but she is frightened.

Joyce Carol Oates

Our lives are Möbius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring. In

There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius

That my agency is riven with paradox does not mean it is impossible. It means only that paradox is the condition of its possibility.

Sometimes I feel grown up and other times I feel like a little kid. I seem to be more than one person.

Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

A. A violent order is disorder; andB. A great disorder is an order. TheseTwo things are one.

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.