Polarity Quotes:

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

topic: Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow, Quantity And Quality, Polarity

Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Summer, Stars, Pain And Pleasure, Polarity

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Swimming, Animal, Moon, Polarity, Black Or White

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Life, Heart, Thinking, Polarity

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Creativity, Differences, Sparks, Dialectics, Polarity

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

topic: Life, Ideas, Orbit, Polarity, Incompetent

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Self, Two, Mystery, Polarity

To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.

- Rajneesh

topic: Doors, Missing, Ego, Polarity

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

topic: Summer, Dark, Winter, Summer And Winter, Dark Night

You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between these two polarities.

- Margot Anand

source: Margot Anand (1995). “The Art of Sexual Magic”, Tarcher

topic: Two, Heaven, Energy, Polarity, Heaven And Earth

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Home, Heart, Journey, Journey Together, Polarity

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

- Dan Brown

topic: Angel, Enemy, Battle, Archetype, Angels And Demons

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

- Tim Ferriss

source: Interview with John Romaniello, www.askmen.com.

topic: Strong, Mean, People, Polarity

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

- Rajneesh

topic: Night, Opposites, Mind, Dividing, Polar Opposites

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Music, Loyalty, One Direction, Energy Flow, Polarity

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

- Carl Jung

source: "The Secret Of The Golden Flower". Book by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung, archive.org. 1931.

topic: Practice, Self, Important, Polarity

The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Night, Emotional, Play, Male Female, Day Night

The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.39, Open Road Media

topic: Ocean, Rain, Night, Polarity

Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

- Ian Stewart

topic: Beauty, Art, Views, Physical Beauty, Order And Chaos

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.

- Joy Page

topic: Beautiful, Dark, Light, Inside And Outside, Polarity

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

- James Hollis

topic: Inspirational, Moving, Opposites, Polarity

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

- Michelangelo

topic: Spiritual, Religious, War, Polarity

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

- Rajneesh

topic: Art, Secret, Extremes, Polarity

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Taoism, Males, Female, Polarity

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Men, Trying, Consciousness, Collective Consciousness, Polarity

I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Religious, Work, Dirty, Beginnings And Ends, Alpha And Omega

I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.

- Josef Albers

topic: Spring, Black And White, Winter, Polarity

The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of the woman. If those supporting qualities are not there, the man will fall apart. And the same will happen to the woman. She cannot exist only on female qualities, she needs male supporting qualities. So each human being is a composite whole of two polarities which appear opposed to each other but are not really opposed; they are basically, absolutely essential components of each other.

- Rajneesh

topic: Fall, Men, Two, Polarity, Composites

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

topic: Death, Sex, War, Polarity

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Sadness, Joy, Polarity

When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

- Walter Russell

topic: Life, Men, Thinking, Medical Profession, Polarity

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Life, Opposites, Feelings, Polarity

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Love, Hate, Unexpected, Love And Hate, Ambivalence

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Views, Law, Opposites, Polarity

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.943, Library of America

topic: Understanding, Age, Liberty, Polarity

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Levels, Polarity

The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

- Roberto Assagioli

topic: Acceptance, Personality, Might, Polarity

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

- Audre Lorde

topic: Creativity, Differences, Creative, Sustenance, Polarity

As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

- Dave Hickey

topic: Positivity, Blue, Color, Color Red, Polarity

I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad. Anything external will always live in that polarity - a combination of good and bad.

- Karan Bajaj

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Journey, Thinking, Purification, Personal Journey, Polarity

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.

- Homi K. Bhabha

topic: Self, Space, Diversity, Hybridity, Polarity

The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Sex, Men, Energy, Polarity, Castration

We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Mind, Might, Polarity

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

- Norman Mailer

topic: Opposites, Becoming, Matter, Polarity

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.94, Vintage

topic: Sex, War, Currents, Bisexuality, Polarity

The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes of manifestation exhibit equivalent invariances for both consciousness and matter. When the program for mind-physics is complete the subject-object dichotomy of modal logic, the polarity of concept-percept, and the antagonism between morality and technology will all come to an end. Then the non-repeatable experiment will be understood to be more primary than the traditional repeatable experiment.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Technology, Mind, Matter, Polarity

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

- Michael Moorcock

topic: Years, Editors, Attention, Pulp, Polarity

That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in ending a correspondence, it be an instruction to the officers to give notice "That no further contributions to the mysteries of Polarity will be received, considered or printed by the Society." His challenge was not accepted.

- Henry Edward Armstrong

topic: Practice, Games, Giving, Polarity, Noughts And Crosses