Quotes About Duality

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

we all laugh and mourn and love and hate with the same breath of air in our lungs. We are guilty and innocent. There is only the difference of a hair between these.

I'm still happy," said Marianne. "One can be happy and miserable both at once, you know.

No woman is all sweetness." —Mme. Récamier

This is my social face," he said lightly. "Don't confuse it with the animal beneath.

Ich weiß es nicht genau. Umwerfend - aber auch etwas unwirklich. Als wäre ich gleichzeitig zwei Personen: Eine, der es passiert, und eine, der es unmöglich passieren kann.

not to conclude that the worst thing to happen to Michael Devlin was also the best thing to happen to them.

You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold.

God and monster all in one, and mine to worship. ~Kyla

A crazy parent, America was. Good and openhearted one way, dismissive and cruel in others.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

And every day,' he went on, 'we lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?

ET DIABOLUS INCARNATE EST. ET HOMO FACTUS EST. ?

Et diabolus incarnate est. Et homo factus est./ Ve ÅŸeytan ete kemiÄŸe büründü. Ve insan oluÅŸtu.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Reality is thought of as a duality, operating within the human world, in terms of natural/supernatural, spatio-temporal/the eternal, the order of nature/the realm of faith, the natural(or physical)/the historical, the physical-and-biological/mind-and-spirit.

Pues eso… Todos hicieron bien y mal, y eso mero es la vida.

Hay héroes tanto en el mal como en el bien. La Rochefoucauld, Máximas

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Delusion with respect to the body, idle talk with respect to speech, forgetfulness with respect to the mind, mental agitation in terms of not resting evenly in meditative equipoise, ideation of duality in terms of samsara and nirvana being viewed differently, indifferent equanimity in terms of not being alert and analyzing: the Sage is without any of these.

The veil of the hindrances to knowledge has three aspects in terms of progressively subtler concepts. The first is holding on to true existence (Tib. bden par 'dzin pa), the second is holding on to characteristics (Tib. mtshan mar 'dzin pa), and the third is the appearance of duality (Tib. gnyis snang).

At the time when emptiness or Mahamudra is realized, the essence of one's own mind is realized by itself in such a way that there is no duality between an object to be realized and a realizing subject.