Quotes About Duality

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

La incredulidad y la creencia están ambas marchando sobre SU camino, mientras ambas dicen: 'Él es uno y Él no tiene socios'.

El hombre y la mujer tienen una infinita capacidad para el autodesarrollo. E igualmente, tienen una infinita capacidad para la autodestrucción. Un ser humano puede estar clínicamente vivo y sin embargo, a pesar de todas las apariencias, hallarse espiritualmente muerto.

The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!

El dicho Sufi es: "Dios, para una abeja, es algo que tiene DOS aguijones.

El hábil artesano utiliza el mismo hierro para hacer una herradura que cuando construye un bruñido espejo para el rey.

Las cosas serias no se pueden entender sin las cosas humorísticas; ni los opuestos sin opuestos.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

Y a veces (¡qué difícil reconocerlo!) nada está tan cerca del bien como el mal.

A good deed does not erase a bad in my mind, yet neither does a bad dead erase a good.

The love, the hate and that strange spot in-between.

Those who wish to eradicate evil are those who create it.

Whatever you think someone feels is most likely the exact opposite.

El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. C. G. JUNG

Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons in the fire, to humiliation and hopeless longing, to the grey road of uniform days. To live in spite of it, to live on as best she could, with her two warring natures: one that willed, no-one knew how far - one that could let itself be bound any time and anywhere. To live and lie and listen her way forward, to seek haphazardly in her tomes, to wait and see...

It just goes to show. There's ten people in the world and the rest is ghosts and mirrors.

There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous. ("New York Blues")

Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.