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Opposites Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness…
- In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan…
- We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of…
- Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of…
- Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.
- Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
- They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
- What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or…
- You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that…
- It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
- The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying…
- Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
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- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger
- There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great… — Niels Bohr
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr
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