Duality Quotes

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Unity, Conflict

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Duality is always secretly unity.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Unity

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

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Silence, Mind

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• The direction of life is from duality to unity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unity, Life Is

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

  Rumi

  Two, Two Worlds, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mean, Two

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

  Namkhai Norbu

  Real, Roots, Suffering

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

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Transcendence

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