Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

All concord's born of contraries.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

Weightless is a great equalizer.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.