Quotes About Polarity

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

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.

The positive already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested negative.

the negative and the positive polarities are faces of the same coin, are both part of the underlying pain that is inseparable from the mind-identified egoic state of consciousness. There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain — this is what I want to talk about now.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.

When things reach the extreme, they alternate to the opposite.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I am a living contradiction.

I must state again: Nothing exists in our human dimension without its opposite close by.

one star appears to stand almost overhead hour after hour, night after night, seemingly never moving even as the others circle perpetually around it. In recognition thereof, it is dubbed Polaris, the pole star ...

An invisible force. Like two magnets.

Good is not always good.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.

The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. They carry in themselves the principle of receiving and of penetrating, of matter and of spirit. Man—and woman—finds union within himself only in the union of his female and his male polarity. This polarity is the basis for all creativity.

Against a backdrop of stark group inequality, the most successful extremist groups offer their members precisely what existing societal institutions do not: a tribe, a sense of belonging and purpose, an enemy to hate and kill, and a chance to reverse the group polarity, turning humiliation into superiority and triumph. This is the formula that al-Qaeda and ISIS have exploited.

Pros and cons Ins and outs Good or bad Happy or sad Mad or glad The balancing act From the poem The Balancing Act by Andreas Simic

The polarity of Mitch Mitchell and Moe Tucker offers a pretty good understanding of what a drummer's role is.

Daily Law: As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. The 33 Strategies of War, Strategy 1: Declare War on Your Enemies—The Polarity Strategy

The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.