Quotes About Duality

Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. And

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.

Hell," he finished absurdly. "Because—" He produced a twenty-peso note and laid it on the table. "I like it," he called to them, through the open window, from outside. Cervantes stood behind the bar, with scared eyes, holding the cockerel. "I love hell. I can't wait to get back there. In fact I'm running, I'm almost back there already.

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.

A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're both right.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

It's my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?

I think about our two faces. I think about my intentions. Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better? If you show one, you must always sacrifice the other.

Life was good until the putges came. After that, there was nothing to do except flee into the jungle, high up, where it was so thick only wold things grew. When the putgest stopped Black Spot and his grids and cousin went quietly to the town of Nyang Shwe, where they were not known. They procured black-market identity cards of dead people with good reputations. After that they lived two ways: in the open life of the dead, and in the hidden life of the living.

So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. The pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear, and then my fierceness can come back. My golden side, my black side.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

It was this that frightened me--the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.