Quotes About Duality

There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Masculine and feminine stories cannot have the same ending.

You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.

I'm not a good man, but I'm not a bad one, either.

Love doesn't work like that, one or the other. Don't you know that yet?

The robber owns riches, [the noble] is a thief.

Los grandes canallas tienen algo de héroes y los grandes héroes tienen algo de canallas.

Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.

It was a split [between the way I was saw myself…and the way I was expected to behave] that brought up to date the age-old dualism between body and soul, virgin and whore. (Haskell xiii)

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design — do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Eight forces sustain creation: Movement and stillness, Solidification and fluidity, Extension and contraction, Unification and division. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Some of them taught that all worldly things are unreal, because [they are] a result of the perverted views. Only that which transcends worldly things and can be called "emptiness," being the absence of them all, is real. Others said that everything, both worldly and supramundane, both absolute and relative, both Samsara and Nirvana, is fictitious and unreal and that all we have got is a number of verbal expressions to which nothing real corresponds.

Evil as well as good, both operate to advance the Great Plan." "To have peace there must be strife; both are part of the structure of the world and requirements

Women are the twin halves of men

The shadow is the image of ourselves that slides along behind us as we walk toward the light. The persona, its opposite, is named after the Roman term for an actor's mask. It is the face we wear to meet the social world around us.

The two sides of the personality are like the wings of a butterfly with eyes in the form of a frightening disguise from misunderstanding.

As long as we have God and the devil in the scriptures, competitions will never cease to exist.

Comparing the sun with the moon is similar to those who try to compare God with the devil.

Every birth is followed by death, just as every pleasure is also followed by pain.

Good and evil are one. Just like a coin, the head and the tail.

Good and evil have come out of the same thread. Simply, because all demons were once considered angels. They use the same powers, but differ on intentions.

How can we separate the mind from spirit or the spirit from mind? I mean, is the spirit mindless?

Living is such a great adventure. Swing between good and evil, pleasure and pain, success and failure. It's full of ups and downs.