Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.