Duality Quotes
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor
If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
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.
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection
Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.
A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".
God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.
As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.
The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.
The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.
Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.
How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?
I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
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.
We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.
The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
