The Dynamic Balance of Polarities | Yin and Yang ☯️
As the same thing in us are living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old. For these things having changed around are those, and those in turn having changed around are these.
Daniel W. Graham • Heraclitus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sea is the purest and most polluted water: for fish drinkable and healthy, for men undrinkable and harmful.
Heraclitus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”
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Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
A quote by Gregory Bateson
Time is not real, Govinda; I have experienced this many times over. And if time is not real, then the divide which seems to separate the world from eternity, suffering from bliss, and evil from good, is also a deception.”
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come and go everlastingly without beginning or end, and the whole system is protected from monotony by the fact that, in just the same way, remembering alternates with forgetting.