Quotes About Opposites

If we identify with a polarity we create the other. A belief in the 'Light' means that you must believe in the 'Dark' or you would not have to call it 'Light'. It would just be, no labels necessary.

Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

In all darkness, there is a light and in all light there is a darkness.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

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

All art moves between the extremes.

There is no creation without destruction. There is no light without dark. That's what my nuns didn't understand. It isn't a competition. Good and evil are all part of the same thing.

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in the mind's judgment. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution is needed for new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other.

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