Quotes About Duality

Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.

You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves. There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

Ole tervehditty, Dionysos! Me olemme matkalla Kuolemaan, hän on aukko maailman ihossa.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

Puedo dominarte. Porque fui humana y te conozco. Porque fui demonio y te comprendo. Y porque fui un ángel y no te temo.

The self on tiptoes sneaking away from the self.

Tu' eres de dos mundos." He was wrong, of course. You can only belong to one world at a time.

Placeres y tormentos son iguales, como si el amor y su castigo fueran la misma cosa

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

according to Jewish law. Nevertheless, the family considered itself Christian

We humans are a strange mixture of dirt and divinity.

To think about our bodies as horses to be ridden or even temples to be occupied, is to create a duality between our thinking and our body. It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty.

Where duality divides things into black or white, polarity includes the full spectrum, it is all-inclusive. Duality takes the spectrum and draws a line somewhere cutting it in half. Duality really only exists in the mind; it does not directly relate to the physical realm.

The journey to marifat (becoming the mirror of Allah) may be long or it may occur at your next breath, but in the meanwhile, we must encounter duality. Duality is as 'Divine' as non-duality. The light and the dark must be regarded as sacred, so we do not fall into faulting Allah for the thorns on the rosebush.

If you are to accept that embracing the Sacred Dark is as necessary as embracing the Sacred Light, does that mean that it does not matter if you live or die, heal or hurt, love or hate?

The concept of transcending duality, that is, of going beyond the notions of pleasing and distasteful, should be applied to the realm of rhetoric. When you are listening to someone expound on his or her ideas (or if you are reading them as a letter, e-mail or news story) endeavor to stop yourself from forming any opinion of the speaker's views. The goal is neither to agree nor to disagree.

Consider an ordinary flashlight battery. Look at or visualize one. Can you imagine if the battery only had a positive end, but not a negative end? What good would it be if it had only a positive pole, but not a negative pole? It wouldn't be functional. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't even be a battery. Most importantly of all, from a magickal point of view, it wouldn't be charged!

It is a great mistake to say that the thorn does not have anything to do with the rose, or that the thorn is the absence of the rose. The thorn is as much rose bush as the rose is. The thorn has as much validity as the rose. Let this Rose Bush be the symbol of the Heart of Real Spirituality. We are not asking you to like the thorn, but we are asking you to see it as an expression of Allah.

We need to be able to hold opposites, and this embrace is a profound act. Ultimately, we want to achieve an integral (intact and undivided) self. Coherence and Self-Realization are the means through which we attain our Magickal Aim.

Therefore to sum up, when we only visualize the positive, we neglect the occult fact that eventually the universe will pull the pendulum in the opposite direction, thereby taking away our goal, unless we do something to counteract the opposing force! The solution is not to wage war upon the Opposing Force, not to exorcise it, banish it, or resist it, but to encounter it, and to find a way to integrate it into ourselves.

Mistakenly, many people confuse duality with polarity. In spiritual growth it is important to focus on polarity. Polarity can be viewed as complimentary forces that work together to create balance, on the other hand, duality is the belief in opposing forces that conflict with each other and create chaos. Your goal is to establish a balance between the two poles.

Life is one aspect of death and death is one aspect of life.