Top 100 Quotes About Duality

#1. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.

Andrea Seigel

#3. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

LZ Granderson

#4. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.

Amit Ray

#5. When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player.

Terry Pratchett

#6. If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

C. G. Jung

#7. The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality ... was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil ... This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands ...

Joseph Campbell

#8. Mind gives us an existence in duality; Spirituality gives us the knowledge in non-duality. Unless we narrow this gap, we will never experience the ultimate reality.

Gian Kumar

#9. Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

Christmas Humphreys

#10. I was still cursed with my duality of purpose.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. But then, he continued, the idea of duality was also at the heart of Christianity. You had to be both a man and a Christian, and if there was ever a conflict between the two then it was his duty as a priest to put his acquired identity, as a man of faith, above his own essential nature. Sidney

James Runcie

#12. I eliminated duality with joyous laughter
Saw the unity of here and the hereafter
Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak
Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek

Rumi

#13. All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

Tony Parsons

#14. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.

Shannon Drury

#15. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.

T.F. Hodge

#16. The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

Rajneesh

#18. As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#19. At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

Jack London

#20. My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.

James Hetfield

#21. But I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

Rupert Everett

#23. A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion.

Vivian Amis

#24. i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#25. We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.

Frederick Lenz

#26. There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#27. God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.

Robin Sacredfire

#28. You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.

Banani Ray

#29. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#30. Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

Ram Dass

#31. The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Deepak Chopra

#32. People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Carlos Santana

#34. That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.

Nirmala Srivastava

#35. Truth has no duality.

Debasish Mridha

#36. For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex - asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Austin Osman Spare

#37. We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Edward Norton

#39. Always questioning what the mirror shows us (for there is no duality of you/me in higher consciousness).

Jay Woodman

#40. Gender is but a doorway to a vast inner universe of ultimate relationships between oneness and duality, manifest and divine, being and nonbeing, temporal and eternal.

William Keepin

#41. The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#42. He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun

Soroosh Shahrivar

#43. Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

#44. In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.

Otto Weininger

#45. Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Eckhart Tolle

#46. All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

Rajneesh

#47. This isn't a duality. I'm not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn't a lever inside me that determines which of me you're talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn't change. It's still a knife.

Wildbow

#48. When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Eckhart Tolle

#49. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.

Banani Ray

#50. In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

Carl De Keyzer

#51. I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

Ziggy Marley

#52. That's not me.That's my duality!

Munia Khan

#53. To accept duality is to earn identity.

Joss Whedon

#54. Even a broken mirror isn't broken if it allows you to see who you really are - cracked down the middle in your duality.

Jarod Kintz

#55. Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#56. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#57. How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?

Joshua Edward Smith

#58. You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

Byron Katie

#59. God Will Remain in you if duality Is Not Remain in You.

Rumi

#60. I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Joshua Edward Smith

#61. Parochialism remains the Danes' defining characteristic, but their radically recalibrated sense of identity and national pride has created a curious duality best described as a kind of "humble pride," though many often mistake it for smugness.

Michael Booth

#62. Om is the creative vibration, the seed vibration. The whole existence is hidden within it, just as a giant tree is hidden within a seed.

Banani Ray

#63. That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#64. Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Rajneesh

#65. As a culture we tend to feel great pride towards our strengths, and shame for our weaknesses. It is time we take notice that these are two pieces of the same whole.

Chris Matakas

#66. I believe the duality of life is fertile soil.

Ken Grace

#67. Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Joss Whedon

#68. Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Francis Bacon

#69. Jack and Stella rushed over to the edge just in time to see Charming disappearing into the reduction duality universe.

Simon J. Morley

#70. The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

Guru Nanak

#71. I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.

Meghna Pant

#72. Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

Joseph Campbell

#73. Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Rabindranath Tagore

#74. There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

Frederick Lenz

#75. I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side.

Mark Hoppus

#76. Duality is to exist; non-duality is divine. In the centre is that oneness From which they are separated.

Gian Kumar

#77. Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#78. People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

Patricia Highsmith

#79. The one who has won over duality is adwait (non-duality; state of oneness, free from duality-state). With a transparent inner vision one can attain a state beyond duality.

Dada Bhagwan

#80. Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human ... the intrinsic, I guess.

Zola Jesus

#81. Mind makes a man of God.

Emmanuel Diogu

#82. Dvityadvai bhayam bhavati which means, Fear is the result of duality.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#83. A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

Bill Skarsgard

#84. Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#85. There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

Joe Carnahan

#86. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#87. My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

Rumi

#88. The singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.

Umberto Eco

#89. She finally understood that sex was never about orgasms. Sex was merely a vehicle to achieve connection. It wasn't the destination that mattered - only the journey.

Joshua Edward Smith

#90. Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

Solange Nicole

#91. There are more than one or two options in every aspect.The duality system on Earth wants you to believe they don't exist.

Katerina Kostaki

#92. fear is born of duality -

Alan W. Watts

#93. The Truth is different than human truths; they are like LIGHT.
Truths are like a color, absolute and true, while THE TRUTH is all colors and still colorless; the duality of Truth.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

#94. To the ego, love is poison.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#95. Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Joshua Edward Smith

#96. In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Frederick Lenz

#97. The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Andrew Comiskey

#98. I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#99. Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Guru Gobind Singh

#100. Oh, please," said Hessler. "It's your standard false duality designed to draw gullible believers into a world of monochromatic enemies and strip away any moral ambiguity - usually utilized by the ruling government to bolster whatever policies it wishes to implement.

Patrick Weekes

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