Quotes About Duality

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

It's interesting to come back to your childhood home. And creepy, too, like becoming very young and very old, both at the same time. The spirit that haunts the house.' That was how she looked, I thought, in her archaic long skirt – very young and very old, the granddaughter and the grandmother in one person, slightly schizo. She

Los sueños y la locura eran las dos caras de la misma moneda.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly — not one.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

God is the best of good and the worst of evil all the time.

If there is beauty, there must be ugliness; If there is right, there must be wrong. Wisdom and ignorance are complementary, And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated. This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently. "I want this, I want that" Is nothing but foolishness. I'll tell you a secret - "All things are impermanent!

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. —NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

In considering man, made up of body and spirit, we must not regard him as body alone, or as spirit alone. The analysis of his body by the anatomist and chemist is satisfactory so long as it is not opposed to the analysis of the spirit by the metaphysician.

It was like looking at heaven from the ferry to hell.

Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.

Only for a person who is living with duality there is good and bad karma.

The reason why everyone is not naturally enlightened is simply this: people have categorized the world into good and bad, God and Devil, high and low, sacred and filthy, pure and impure, heaven and hell. These are parallel lines that will never meet. Once

Though unity is the basic fabric of creation, duality brings texture, design, and color to life.