Duality Quotes - Page 2

• The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Choices, Taoism

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• I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

  Rumi

  Two, Two Worlds, World

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• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

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• Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you can stay in that state for a while and come out of it without losing any of it, then the inner divine love will begin to pour through you. You will not see people as different, separate individuals. You will see your own Self in everyone around you. Then the flow of love from within you will be constant and unbroken.

  Swami Muktananda

  Differences, Self, Imagination

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• In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Judgment

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

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Silence, Mind

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Religious, Real, Roots

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• Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Infinite, Finite

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Movie, Girl, Book

  "A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

  Sivananda

  Self, Mind, No Fear

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• When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

  Nicolas Cage

  Beach, Book, Philosophical

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• If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

  Alan Finger

  Real, Yoga, Oneness

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• Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Causes, Cause And Effect

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

  Marguerite Duras

  Heterosexuality Is, Perfect, Desire

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.

  Glenda Green

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Son

  Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.237, Fideli Publishing Inc.

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• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Opposites, Diversity

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Hate, Acceptance, Oneness

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• I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Believe, Everyday

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• We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Another Life, Divided

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• To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

  Marshall Berman

  Adventure, Power, Joy

  Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso

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• 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

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, War, Teaching

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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