Quotes About Duality

In truth, we are all fast and slow, strong and weak, motivated and lazy in a thousand tiny ways throughout our days that the generalizations simply don't capture.

There must only be two, No more and no less

Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two. This

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.

The positive already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested negative.

So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. "Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with." "Maybe," I thought, "only one of them is real.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Me diste el primer atisbo de una vida verdadera, y al mismo momento me pediste que siguiera con una vida ficticia

Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.

It's strange how people can preach brotherly love one day and tear you to bits the next.

Every paradise demands a serpent.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Just as I sat on the fence between two civilizations, so would I now find myself between two classes; and I realized that, in trying to sit on several chairs, one generally lands on the floor.

Estaba condenado con la maldición del que sabe dos idiomas y entiende, secretamente, que no domina del todo ninguno de los dos. Ahora era capaz de comparar; todo se me multiplicaba por dos. En cada sitio terminaba optando por el punto de vista ajeno. Ahora veo todo, esté donde esté, como un extranjero.

Herkes kendi cennetini ba?kas?n?n cehennemine koyar.

La verdad es que aquí cada uno oye lo que quiere. El lenguaje es interpretativo. Los mensajes varían en el trayecto y nadie se da cuenta o a nadie le importa. Sí es también no o quizás . No es posible aceptar ni rechazar. Nacer es morir. Quedarse es partir.

El agua sucia puede apagar un incendio

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, things are not simply exposed ("naked", as it were); they are, so to speak, dressed in their own shadows.