Ernest Holmes Quotes

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

I played one game, and one game played me.

Everything contains its antithesis.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I need them as much as they need me.

It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.