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.
I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.
Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.
There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
