Quotes About Duality

osea, resumiendo, estoy jodido y radiante

Quizá eso nos haya unido. Tal vez unido no sea la palabra más apropiada. Me refiero al odio implacable que cada uno de nosotros siente por su propio rostro. 

Todos sus Más se corresponden con mis Menos. Todos sus Menos se corresponden con mis Más.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Prospero is man-the-artist, or man-the-scholar: Ariel and Caliban represent his ethereal and material selves—the one airy, imaginative, and swift; the second earthy, gross, and appetitive.

So the Giver of Death makes use of us and so does the Giver of Life. And these two are irreducibly One. And whoever does not understand this must learn to see with a single eye.

Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less obvious reason why you can't do it: As soon as you open your right hand to grasp something, you no longer have a right fist.

The Taoists realised that all opposites aren't opponents that must clash but are part of a dynamic balance of existence, necessary to create and sustain life.

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?

For instance, there is no light without darkness—and this troubles many of us—but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this.

ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.

We cannot serve the executed God and the god of religious respectability.

There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child and the face of yourself as a corpse. And in this moment, all the fundamental antinomies are reconciled--the sacred and the profane, the analyst and the analysand, the celebrated success and the abject failure. The pilot and the passenger. Writer and reader. Fiction and nonfiction. Past and present. And the mind that abides and the mind that is gone.

Freedom is just another word for wretchedness.

All of us are walking contradictions made of mismatched parts and anomalies.

It's the kind of gratitude you have, she said, "when you've had a teacher who's brilliant, who has shown you the way in a fundamental sense, not in a relative sense. Who has really been able to help you see for yourself the fundamental reality beyond the duality of good and evil." Alas, she added, Zen Buddhists can "forget that we have to live in the relative world of good and evil, that we have to make choices based on right and wrong.

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

Peter Owen Jones really helped me to see how I can be both. I do not need to choose and I do not need to mix them either.

And my walking between two worlds (the Christian and the Druidic) loses any confusion in that place

I've just attended another talk by Fr. Richard, what Emerging Christianity is not! He said that EC is not oppositional and is non-dualistic, and also that Jesus, with sayings like "let the wheat and the weeds grow together" and "my Father's love shines on the good and the bad," was the first non-dualistic teacher of the West. "Jesus was far happier for us to live with the shadow rather than to project it" said Rohr.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart