Quotes About Duality

Ele e o marido da Senhora Dona Flor, cuida de tua virtude, de tua honra, de teu respeito humano. Ele e tua face matinal, eu sou tua noite, o amante para o qual nao tem nem jeito nem coragem. Somos teus dois maridos, tuas duas faces, teu sim teu nao. Para ser feliz, precisas de nos dois. Quando era eu so, tinhas meu amor e te faltava tudo, como sofrias! Quando foi so ele, tinhas de um tudo, nada te faltava, sofrias ainda mais. Agora sim, es dona Flor inteira como deves ser

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is gazed on as it gazes

que mientras dromimos aqui, estamos despiertos en otro lado y que asi cada hombre es de dos hombres.

Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

it is also said that it takes the shape of a man pointing to both heaven and earth, in order to show that the lower world is the map and mirror of the higher

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.

Llegué a abominar de mi cuerpo, llegué a sentir que dos ojos, dos manos, dos pulmones, son tan monstruosos como dos caras.

Algo de sacerdote había en él y también de marino.

El orden inferior es un espejo del orden superior; las formas de la tierra corresponden a las formas del cielo; las manchas de la piel son un mapa de las incorruptibles constelaciones; Judas refleja de algún modo a Jesús.

Aprendió el arte vagabundo de los troperos. Aprendió el otro, más difícil, de mandar hombres; ambos lo ayudaron a ser un buen ladrón de hacienda.

while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.

Otra, que mientras dormimos aquí, estamos despiertos en otro lado y que así cada hombre es dos hombres.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a He. You cannot say God is a She. You cannot say God is an It. (18)

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

They are equals, but not the same, because when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

In the Hellenistic period, Scylla was identified with the rock of logic, while Charybdis was identified with the abyss of mysticism. One must sail between—as these are all instructions for moving down through the middle, between each pair of opposites.

transcendent means to "transcend," to go past duality. Everything in the field of time and space is dual.

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

En kaffe med mjölk och en utan, yin och yang.