206 Quotes About Duality

The supposed Spirit-Matter duality is based on a misunderstanding of the perception of the Essence. The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.

We talk about God being within and without. If we really want to gain balance, we must balance the God with the Goddess. We must combine the duality to create Oneness. Whole. It’s not to be read, but to be practiced.

All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker — no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential.

Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured aspect of your being will often be the source of your greatest suffering.

Shiva represents the non-dualistic Absolute..... all dualities merge within him.

De um modo geral, não se deve temer a ninguém. Quando temos medo de alguém é porque demos a esse alguém algum poder sobre nós.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit:The lower lip is like his fiancee.But that which splits in two will surely splitinto two hundred just as easily.And everything that's been twofold is thenaccountable, is then no longer moot.

The very fact that he could and did see no paradox in the fact that he took an active part in a partisan war and on the very side whose principles opposed to his own, was proof enough that he was two separate and complete people, one of whom dwelled by serene rules in a world where reality did not exist.

Your Belief in a particular ideology does not cause it's truth, and your disbelief cannot cause it's falsehood. The duality of belief and doubt does not encompass or describe the great miracle of the eternal Tao; the sacred reality which is prior to and beyond all mental activity or fixated belief/disbelief structures.