Quotes About Opposites

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

THE HOT WATER'S a scorcher and the cold water's like a winter puddle, and the shower offers nothing in between.

Kei means fire…but my body is always cold.

Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa.

A light here required a shadow there.

For Love, to which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

Opposites attract. If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary.

As D. H. Lawrence trenchantly put it, "Hate is not the opposite of love, the opposite of love is individuality.

You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves. There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.

He grasped for hope in Emerson's vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain.

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time... Life is about experiencing opposites isn't it?

Consider an ordinary flashlight battery. Look at or visualize one. Can you imagine if the battery only had a positive end, but not a negative end? What good would it be if it had only a positive pole, but not a negative pole? It wouldn't be functional. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't even be a battery. Most importantly of all, from a magickal point of view, it wouldn't be charged!

We need to be able to hold opposites, and this embrace is a profound act. Ultimately, we want to achieve an integral (intact and undivided) self. Coherence and Self-Realization are the means through which we attain our Magickal Aim.

Mistakenly, many people confuse duality with polarity. In spiritual growth it is important to focus on polarity. Polarity can be viewed as complimentary forces that work together to create balance, on the other hand, duality is the belief in opposing forces that conflict with each other and create chaos. Your goal is to establish a balance between the two poles.

Death and Life are merely two sides of the same coin.

The universe flows in two directions simultaneously.

Allow yourself to wander and travel through your world for one day without resorting to dividing the world up into pairs of opposites. The Journey Without Aim is often propitious.

There is a rhythmic interchange between positive and negative. The high becomes low, the low becomes high. Everything is exchanging with its opposite to create a state of equilibrium. Each must become the other to achieve balance. The discharged must become charged, and the charged must become discharged. The universe always wants to be balanced, and in a state of equilibrium.

You can energize your being through the method of synthesizing opposites.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick.

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.