Quotes About Duality

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss

We should live each and every day with the certainty that this armor will protect us from danger, and then we will no longer be bound to the duality of existence. We have to find a middle path, where there is neither joy nor suffering, only profound peace.

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

soy una mujer dividida entre el terror a que todo cambie y el terror a que todo siga igual el resto de mi vida.

Cuando liberamos nuestro lado malo,este acaba eclipsando completamente lo mejor de nosotros mismos.

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.

On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

According to this very simple teaching, becoming immersed in these four pairs of opposites—pleasure and pain, loss and gain, fame and disgrace, and praise and blame—is what keeps us stuck in the pain of samsara.

The concepts of problem and solution can keep us stuck in thinking that there is an enemy and a saint or a right way and a wrong way.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

Hypothesis: To burn and not consume. Hypothesis: To consume and not extinguish.