Duality Quotes

• Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Unity, Conflict

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• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

  Alan Watts

  Unity, Chaos, Complexity

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.126, New World Library

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• No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Roots, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Is, Oneness, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.50, Penguin

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• 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

  Men, Two, Jekyll

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

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• To accept duality is to earn identity.

  Joss Whedon

  Identity, Accepting

  Joss Whedon's Commencement Addressn at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

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• Great repressions create dualities.

  Anais Nin

  Denial, Repression

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• He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Heart, Self

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• 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

  Life, Want, Problem

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving, Over You, Rebel

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• 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

  Two, Soul, World

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.

  Robert Tisserand

  Spiritual, Past, Oneness

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• 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

  Black And White, Path, Sphinx

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• Duality is always secretly unity.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Unity

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• The direction of life is from duality to unity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unity, Life Is

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

  Namkhai Norbu

  Real, Roots, Suffering

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, World, Surrender

  "Morning share: Kim Eng and Eckhart Tolle: Relationships – True Love and the Transcendence of Duality". Interview with Kim Eng, www.patheos.com. January 25, 2013.

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• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Opposites, Rose, Tigers

  Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber

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• Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Real, Past, Moments

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• I am at one with my duality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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• Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

  Prem Rawat

  Peace, Truth, Struggle

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• Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Transcendence

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• Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Revenge, Choices, Waiting

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