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Quotes About Yin

En kaffe med mjölk och en utan, yin och yang.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
Of the energies of the universe, none is greater than harmony. Harmony means the regulation of yin and yang."29
~ David H. Rosen
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
~ Philip Zimbardo
When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.
~ Lou Reed
If daylight belongs to the dogs, then we cats are creatures of the night. We are the feline yin to the canine yang.
~ David Michie
Também se diz que a Lua é yin na sua relação com o Sol, mas yang em sua relação com a Terra. Traduzindo isso em termos psicológicos, talvez possamos dizer que o relacionamento do ego com o Self deveria ser visto como receptivo, mas que, no tocante à autoexpressão ele é criativo.
~ Alice O. Howell
Indeed, the East which accepts the unity of good and evil, yin and yang, with such equanimity, has never forgotten that if the evil is omnipresent, why, then, so must be the good.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.
~ Ray Davies
According to Chinese philosophy, the world is sustained by the interplay of opposing but complementary forces called yin and yang.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The clearest and simplest definition of æ°" (qi) is that it is the interchange of Yin and Yang.
~ Zhang Yu Huan
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
~ Zhuangzi
A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is stuck somewhere else, a foggy place where people believe their lies are true.
~ Amy Tan
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.
~ Amy Tan
With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang.
~ Amy Tan
When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.
~ John Maxwell Taylor
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.
~ Frederick Lenz
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. To so heighten one's sensitivity to sexism presents problems far worse than the black militant's new awareness of racism: Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Much fancy footwork takes place to make it seem that New Age mystical evocations of yin and yang, masculine and feminine androgyny, and so on, are not just the same old sexist stereotypes wrapped in more alluring and seductive packaging.
~ bell hooks
ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Mechanism and function are the eternal yin and yang of biology: they interact and intertwine, yet there is no greater sin than confusing the two.
~ Frans de Waal
In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.
~ Marianne Williamson
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
~ Alan Ball
According to the central concepts of Taoism, tao is divided into a fundamental pair of opposites, yang and yin. Yang signifies warmth, light, maleness; yin is cold, darkness, femaleness. Yang is also heaven, yin earth. From the yang force arises shen, the celestial portion of the human soul, and from the yin force comes kwei, the earthly part. As a microcosm, man is a reconciler of the opposites. Heaven, man, and earth form the three chief elements of the world, the san-tsai.
~ C.G. Jung
The yin is conventional wisdom wrapped in a positive thinking package: hard work, total dedication, and constant improvement in every aspect of your life are bound to bring you not only happiness but also the success you believe you deserve. Conventional wisdom is always wrong. Positive thinking might make you happy (the yin), and it is a terrific approach to life in general, but it won't bring you success. To become successful, you need to focus on the yang.
~ Catherine Kaputa