John Steinbeck Quotes

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Everything contains its antithesis.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

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.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

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

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.