Byron Katie Quotes

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Everything contains its antithesis.

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

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Life is full of contrasts.

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

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Every side of a coin has another side.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.