206 Quotes About Duality

There is a duality to South Africa, as in all of life itself, that is evident, and as stark as the inequality among its citizens

A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance and stubborness, the sacred and the scandalous. ...so dance with your own inner paradox.

Жестокость – изнанка обиды. Ненависть – изнанка слабости. Жалость – изнанка взгляда в зеркало. Агрессия – тыл гордыни. Теперь возьмем всё это – плюс многое другое – разделим на бумажные жребии, бросим в шляпу, встряхнем, хорошенько перемешаем и начнем тянуть билетики в другом порядке. Думаете, что-то изменится? Ничего подобного. От перемены мест слагаемых, даже если слагаются не числа, а чувства… Банальность – изнанка мудрости.

The element of duality gives birth to ‘contradiction’. Every individual has some element of self-contradiction embedded within.

Everything has a reason attached to its inception by virtue of the choices we make. The choices indeed materialize the reasons. The reason being the ‘cause’ and every cause conceptualizes an ‘effect’ at its core, thereby identifying itself under the principle of causality.

When the highest Chakra opens, you will find yourself sitting on the lotus of nothingness. The entire world will seem like mud upon which the lotus blooms. The mud is neither bad nor good. If you think it’s bad, you are still attached to it; you are still swimming into it. True detachment is the only way to slowly move upward from one Chakra to another.

Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)

An interesting irony... I observe few less dogmatic then the automated apostle of non-dualism. They often seem oblivious to the reality that the eternal and sacred is infinite and without opposite. Yes, there are the 'ten thousand things'. However there is also that which is prior to, and beyond all twofold manifestation.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.