Quotes About Duality

O bien uno cree en un Dios único y omnipotente o bien cree en dos poderes opuestos, ninguno de ellos omnipotente. Aún así los humanos poseen una maravillosa capacidad para creer en contradicciones.

A diferencia de las leyes de la física, que carecen de inconsistencias, todo orden creado por el hombre está repleto de contradicciones internas.

Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence."

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad."

Beauty and horror, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow are perceived as interwoven strands in the tapestry of maya.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument. Forget the years; forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

I still feel like I'm jumping on an elevator -- weightless and pulled down at the same time.

Both the divine and the devil can sit together within a human being.

It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.

who says wicked can't be good?

She always seems like the one normal person in the family. Then you get to know her better, and you realize that she's cunning, devious and twisted.

We can never escape the tension between emotion and reason; neither should we wish to, for life is meaningless without it.

According to an ancient Upanishad, the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other lovingly looks on.

You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.

But the ancient sages of India taught that fear was born of duality; when human beings realized that they were no longer part of God, they immediately became afraid of what might happen to them. In

The conflict between who we are and who we want to be is at the core of the human struggle. Duality, in fact, lies at the very center of the human experience. Life and death, good and evil, hope and resignation coexist in every person and exert their force in every facet of our lives. If we know courage, it is because we have also experienced fear; if we can recognize honesty, it is because we have encountered deceit. And yet most of us deny or ignore our dualistic nature.

Al igual que dos pájaros posados en el mismo árbol, que son íntimos amigos, el ego y el yo moran en el mismo cuerpo. El primer pájaro come las frutas dulces y amargas de la vida, mientras que el otro lo observa en silencio.

Light and dark appear as opposites, and we've all learned to think of them as warring enemies. Duality is based on separation, yet the soul exists in harmony with everything, even darkness. Your shadow self knows this. As it holds negative energy for you, it tries to attract your attention, not to make you afraid or enraged or vindictive, but so that you can convert those feelings into understanding. Understanding is the light.

No one has ever won the war. Good opposes evil the way the summer sun opposes winter cold, the way light opposes darkness. They are built into the eternal scheme of Nature.

Duality is and always has been an illusion. There is no one out there waiting for you. There is only you and the love you bring to yourself. In spirit you are united with all other souls, and the only purpose of separation is for you to rejoin that unity.

Duality makes us believe that making good decisions and avoiding bad ones is all-important. Buddha disagrees—he says that getting out of duality is all-important, and you'll never escape as long as you keep burying yourself deeper into the game of "A-or-B?" Reality isn't A or B. It's both and it's neither.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

Devil and God are two sides of the same face.