Yin And Yang Quotes

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

“The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.”
― Martin R. Lemieux

“Life gives us a bunch of choices because everything is a matter of perception. Where some see the light, others see darkness. Where some feel openness and expectation, others feel fear and danger. Where some are influenced by yin, others are dominated by yang. Where some are guided by trust, others are confined into suspicion. ( “Let us say more and speak less”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Integrating and befriending our shadow, our running mate means balancing yin and yang, reframing our understanding of ourselves and the world, and opening new arrays for meaning and purpose. (“Not without my shadow »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Darkness is bliss; so is light. Together they make life tick on Earth. Light keeps us going, but it is the darkness that mothers us in her lap and recharges our souls. For without her, dawns will never be beautiful. Never will they be so energetic. The more we fight darkness, the more we tire.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. 'Do you know that sign?'

He looked at it a long time with a strange look, but he said, 'No.'

'It's found on Earth, and on Hain-Davenant, and on Chiffewar. 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, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.' ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? Then, as a rule, the whole truth of Christianity is reversed: there is no more talk of love and long-suffering; we say to the brother within us, "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world; we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drew near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.”
― C.G. Jung

“All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.”
― Martin R. Lemieux

“There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching rats they were no match for the wildcat or the weasel - this refers to a difference in skill. The horned owl catches fleas at night and can spot the tip of a hair, but when daylight comes, no matter how wide it opens its eyes, it cannot see a mound or a hill - this refers to a difference in nature. Now do you say, that you are going to make Right your master and do away with Wrong, or make Order your master and do away with Disorder? If you do, then you have not understood the principle of heaven and earth or the nature of the ten thousand things. This is like saying that you are going to make Heaven your master and do away with Earth, or make Yin your master and do away with Yang. Obviously it is impossible.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.”
― John Maxwell Taylor, Eros Ascending: The Life-Transforming Power of Sacred Sexuality

“There’s an ancient saying that humans and ghosts belong on separate paths, but in all my years, I’ve never seen two people so truly desperate to be together despite being separated by yin and yang.”
― Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 3

“Order and chaos are the yang and yin of the famous Taoist symbol: two serpents, head to tail. Order is the white, masculine serpent; Chaos, its black, feminine counterpart. The black dot in the white—and the white in the black—indicate the possibility of transformation: just when things seem secure, the unknown can loom, unexpectedly and large. Conversely, just when everything seems lost, new order can emerge from catastrophe and chaos. For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Heal the masculine and feminine energies within you, so you can cultivate healthier relationships with both in your life.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Morality is doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Obedience is following orders regardless of morality. They are not kindred spirits. They are yin and yang, black and white fish looking through the eye of its opposite.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“Wolves are the shadow dance partners of humans. The pair cannot exist without the other. We are the same and opposite, yin and yang, shadow and light. Ours is an intricate relationship.”
― Thomas D. Peacock, The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves

“Those who do not have harmony within will destroy the harmony without.”
― Omar Delawar

“Who plays the Song of Songs upon the Hills of Dream? It is said Love is that need-player, for There is no song like his. But today I saw one, on these still garths of shadow and silence, who put a hollow reed to his lips and played a white spell of beauty. Then I knew Love and Sorrow to be one, as in the old myth of Oengus of the White Birds and The Grey Shadows.”
― Fiona Macleod, Where the Forest Murmurs : Nature Essays by Fiona Macleod

“Yes and no is yin and yang in life And you will encounter this every day of your life, No matter who you are, what your status is in life, No matter what your aspirations and dreams are in life,”
― Kenan Hudaverdi

“The crazy ones always get the good ones.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Yin and Yang makes a full circle in the end.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“How do y'all like my shade? There are infinite shades of it between my dark and my light. ”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“I am no opponent of criticism. I am no dogmatist, and do not feel
myself touched by the critic's tooth with which he tears the dogmatist
to pieces. If ! were a 'dogmatist', I should place at the head a dogma,
a thought, an idea, a principle, and should complete this as a 'syste­-
matist', spinning it out to a system, a structure of thought. Conversely,
if I were a critic, an opponent of the dogmatist, I should carry on the
fight of free thinking against the enthralling thought, I should defend
thinking against what was thought. But I am neither the champion
of a thought nor the champion of thinking; for 'I', from whom I start,
am not a thought, nor do I consist in thinking. Against me, the
unnameable, the realm of thoughts, thinking, and mind is shattered.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“I am no opponent of criticism. I am no dogmatist, and do not feel
myself touched by the critic's tooth with which he tears the dogmatist
to pieces. If ! were a 'dogmatist', I should place at the head a dogma,
a thought, an idea, a principle, and should complete this as a 'syste­
matist', spinning it out to a system, a structure of thought. Conversely,
if I were a critic, an opponent of the dogmatist, I should carry on the
fight of free thinking against the enthralling thought, I should defend
thinking against what was thought. But I am neither the champion
of a thought nor the champion of thinking; for 'I', from whom I start,
am not a thought, nor do I consist in thinking. Against me, the
unnameable, the realm of thoughts, thinking, and mind is shattered.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“The feminine is life-preserving, the masculine is life-enhancing.”
― Omar Delawar

“Isn’t it trust
that lets the river give itself to the sea
not knowing if its name will survive the salt..
that lets the moon surrender to darkness
certain the sun will one day find her..
that sends roots downward
into what they cannot see
sure the unseen will answer..
that carries the wind
to rest against the mountain
knowing the stone will not turn away..!?

Isn’t it trust
this primal covenant beneath all motion
where yin carries a fragment of yang
and yang holds the shadow of yin
each completing the other
without asking to be assured..!?
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― Monika Ajay Kaul

“The relation between the controller and the controlled is reciprocal. The scientist in the laboratory, studying the behavior of a pigeon, designs contingencies and observes their effects. His apparatus exerts a conspicuous control on the pigeon, but we must not overlook the control exerted by the pigeon. The behavior of the pigeon has determined the design of the apparatus and the procedures in which it is used. Some such reciprocal control is characteristic of all science. As Francis Bacon put it, “nature to be commanded must be obeyed.” The scientist who designs a cyclotron is under the control of the particles he is studying. The behavior with which a parent controls his child, either aversively or through positive reinforcement, is shaped and maintained by the child's responses. A psychotherapist changes the behavior of his patient in ways which have been shaped and maintained by his success in changing that behavior. A government or religion prescribes and imposes sanctions selected by their effectiveness in controlling citizen or communicant. An employer induces his employees to work industriously and carefully with wage systems determined by their effects on behavior. The classroom practices of the teacher are shaped and maintained by the effects on his students. In a very real sense, then, the slave controls the slave driver, the child the parent, the patient the therapist, the citizen the government, the communicant the priest, the employee the employer, and the student the teacher.”
― B.F. Skinner