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Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. -- Edward Norton
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. -- Marguerite Duras
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
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
Duality is always secretly unity. -- Alan Watts
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts -- Namkhai Norbu
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. -- Rajneesh
Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. -- Alan Watts
There's a duality in every man and every woman. -- Raquel Welch
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. -- Eckhart Tolle
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. -- Carlos Santana
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere. -- George Michael
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real. -- Wei Wu Wei
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them. -- Kevin Spacey
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways. -- Robert Graham
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
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything. -- Rhonda Byrne
I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality. -- Srikumar Rao
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society. -- Alain Aspect
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
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
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. -- Eckhart Tolle
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves. -- Shekhar Kapur
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
My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards. -- Hilarie Burton
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
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
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
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. -- Camille Paglia
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. -- Anandamayi Ma
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
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
he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic. -- Joseph Fiennes
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
I am at one with my duality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To accept duality is to earn identity. -- Joss Whedon
The direction of life is from duality to unity. -- Deepak Chopra
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. -- Rajneesh
I feel frozen holding on to the flame of my own duality.. -- Munia Khan
If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real. -- Alan Finger
I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one. -- Rumi
The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality? -- Saurabh Sharma
I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California. -- Mark Hoppus
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. -- Guru Gobind Singh
The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms. -- Joseph Wechsberg
My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road. -- James Hetfield
Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear. -- Sivananda
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. -- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things. -- Carl De Keyzer
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality. -- Huineng
In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment. -- Leonard Jacobson
The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female. -- Andrew Comiskey
There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that. -- Frederick Lenz
Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation. -- Meher Baba
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them. -- Kevin Spacey
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world. -- Eckhart Tolle
As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things. -- Brenda Strong
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key. -- Phil Collins
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
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts. -- Masiela Lusha
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
The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality -- Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality. -- Jean Giraud
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality. -- Lisa Loomer
Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky. -- Rajneesh
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss. -- Christina Rasmussen
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
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. -- Jack Granatstein
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The duality of positive and negative becomes subsumed in Oneness. There are no opposites in the totality and absolute perfection of the Oneness that we know as Divine. -- Peter Santos
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
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different. -- Jillian Hervey
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
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
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
The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love. -- Ramesh S Balsekar
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
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
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
I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions]. -- David LaChapelle
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view. -- Allen W. Wood
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
...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
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
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. -- James C. Collins

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