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Duality Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear, Separation, Earth, Duality, Perspective

2. “If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”

Pythagoras

Duality, Balance, Wisdom, Nature, Existence

3. “Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.”

Pythagoras

Numbers, Philosophy, Wisdom, Creation, Duality

4. “There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.”

Pythagoras

Duality, Light, Chaos, Creation, Existence

5. “Either is both, and Both is neither.”

Plutarch

Paradox, Duality, Logic, Contradiction, Philosophy

6. “No soy un santo ni un asesino; no amo ni mato. Hago el amor y arranco las alas de las moscas.”

Leonard Cohen

Neutrality, Passion, Life, Indifference, Duality

7. “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.”

Anton Chekhov

Passion, Dedication, Writing, Medicine, Duality

8. “Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”

Stendhal

Human Nature, Duality, Conflict, Identity, Philosophy

9. “Hope and fear, dissimilar as they are, keep step together; fear follows hope.”

Seneca

Hope, Fear, Emotion, Balance, Duality

10. “Circumstances make a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolutely good or bad.”

Amit Ray

Perception, Reality, Duality, Wisdom, Perspective

11. “Samsara is one flower. Nirvana is another flower. Enlightenment happens when both the flowers bloom.”

Amit Ray

Samsara, Nirvana, Enlightenment, Duality, Balance

12. “In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Love, Acceptance, Duality, Open-Heartedness, Connection

13. “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

Non-Violence, Duality, Ego, Conflict, Sacred Path

14. “What you hope for, you also fear.”

Alice Walker

Hope, Fear, Desire, Uncertainty, Duality

15. “Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.”

Sadhguru

Ego, Good And Bad, Duality, Spirituality, Perception

16. “Life and death live in me at once Never held one above the other When one stands far, life I offer In closeness, only death I deal In death of the limited Will the deathless be.”

Sadhguru

Life, Death, Duality, Existence, Transcendence

17. “Though unity is the basic fabric of creation, duality brings texture, design, and color to life.”

Sadhguru

Unity, Duality, Balance, Perspective, Existence

18. “Shiva is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence.”

Sadhguru

Shiva, Shakti, Existence, Balance, Duality

19. “The reason why everyone is not naturally enlightened is simply this: people have categorized the world into good and bad, God and Devil, high and low, sacred and filthy, pure and impure, heaven and hell. These are parallel lines that will never meet. Once.”

Sadhguru

Enlightenment, Duality, Perception, Awareness, Spirituality

20. “Only for a person who is living with duality there is good and bad karma.”

Sadhguru

Duality, Karma, Life, Good, Bad

21. “I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.”

Gustave Flaubert

Desire, Temptation, Contrast, Mystery, Duality

22. “One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.”

Gustave Flaubert

Life, Duality, Thought, Practicality, Greatness

23. “Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

Gustave Flaubert

Notary, Poet, Creativity, Inner Self, Duality

24. “Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.”

Thomas Carlyle

Duality, Soul, Light And Darkness, Free Will, Human Condition

25. “There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.”

Thomas Carlyle

Human Nature, Duality, Heaven, Hell, Mystery