Quotes About Dualism

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears.

You don't have a Batman without Bruce Wayne. Batman is the edge or scary image for Bruce to use.

Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth.

ou l'on admet, comme Descartes, que la nature de l'esprit et celle du corps n'ont pas le moindre point de contact, et alors il n'est pas possible qu'il y ait entre eux un intermédiaire ou un moyen terme ; ou l'on admet au contraire, comme les anciens, qu'ils ont une certaine affinité de nature, et alors l'intermédiaire devient inutile, car cette affinité suffit à expliquer que l'un puisse agir sur l'autre.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic.

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting, pushing or pulling, you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic. You can take that as axiomatic: in most cases, you become a mirror image of both what you oppose and what you love (see Ephesians 5:14).

Over time, we move beyond a dualistic view of God being "up there" while we are "down here" to a vision where God is up there, down here, in others, and within ourselves, all at the same time. "We are all en Cristo" (page 43). In taking this view, we start to see that all things are sacred, including the masks we wear, the shadows we seek to hide, the wounds we carry, and the parts of ourselves we consider profane. Every thing is sacred.

I personally describe contemplation as "non-dual consciousness" and find that it is necessary to overcome the "stinking thinking" of most addicts, which tends to be "all-or-nothing thinking."3 We could say that authentic spirituality is invariably a matter of emptying the mind and filling the heart at the same time.

God seems to have created things that continue to create and recreate themselves from the inside out. It is no longer God's one-time creation or evolution; rather, God's form of creation precisely is evolution. Finally God is allowed to be fully incarnate, which was supposed to be Christianity's big trump card from the beginning! It has taken us a long time to get here, and dualistic thinkers still cannot jump the hurdle.

The simultaneous existence and shared residence of such opposite moods and feelings is well-illustrated by Franz Schubert's assertion that whenever he sat down to write songs of love he wrote songs of pain, and whenever he sat down to write songs of pain he wrote songs of love.

our most problematic dualism is not life fearing death but a fragile sense-of-self dreading its own groundlessness, according to Buddhism. By accepting and yielding to that groundlessness, I can discover that I have always been grounded in Indra's Net, not as a self-enclosed being but as one manifestation of a web of relationships which encompasses everything.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Dualism is the proto-dream underlying clock time and all modern dreaming. Dualism might be defined as the illusion that there are two discreet principles in the universe: self and other. Dualism implies isolation, conflict, and a continuous struggle of opposing forces. For this reason, actions based on dualistic vision are simplistic, aggressive, and destructive.

The world is not merely physical, nor is it merely mental. Nor is it merely one with many subordinate phases. Nor is it merely a complete fact, in its essence static with the illusion of change. Wherever a vicious dualism appears, it is by reason of mistaking an abstraction for a final concrete fact.

Cartesian dualism gave medicine permission to see and to treat the body as manipulable matter, as res extensa,

For the moment, I'm just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.