Understand Duality

To separate oneself or one’s group to say, “Oh, no, we are different” is to set oneself against wholeness. To separate ourselves from the whole is to cut our options and erect the walls of our own prison. When we create duality in our thoughts and lives, we have created opposition.
- Joseph Campbell

If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress?
- Steven Wright

It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.
- Charles Hampden-Turner, Maps Of The Mind, p.29

....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity...
- Ken Wilber, No Boundary

Have the strength not to compare and contrast opposites but rather, balance and combine them.
- Xia Neifion~Clark, The New Culture of Ouranos: The Plan, Page: 20

Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.
- Three Initiates, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, Page: 10

All opposites of all kinds extend from a mutual equator which is their common unity, and to that equator they must eventually return in order to repeat. Every pair must become one in order to again become two.
- Walter Russell, Message of the Divine Iliad Vol. 2 (Divine Iliad)

Know the male,
yet keep to the female:
receive the world in your arms.
If you receive the world,
the Tao will never leave you
and you will be like a little child.

Know the white,
yet keep to the black:
be a pattern for the world.
If you are a pattern for the world,
the Tao will be strong inside you
and there will be nothing you can't do.

Know the personal,
yet keep to the impersonal:
accept the world as it is.
If you accept the world,
the Tao will be luminous inside you
and you will return to your primal self.

The world is formed from the void,
like utensils from a block of wood.
The Master knows the utensils,
yet keeps to the the block:
thus she can use all things.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
- Mevlana Rumi, (1207 - 1273) Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

Now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire, on his deathbed when asked to renounce "Satan"

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)



Ok folks, that last one is ESPECIALLY important. I concur with Hermann Hesse COMPLETELY. DO NOT believe me or Hermann, or anyone else...

Find out for yourself if what is being said is actual.