“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.” WorldMindMatterWholeRealitySuccessLife IsSpiritTermPerfectResultsWorryFailureOppositesFundamentalsUnityUnhappinessTranquilityDualityLife HappinessSuccess Or FailureMind And MatterTrue Reality Author:Tom Hoover
“Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.” PeopleWorldWellsWholeShowsTogetherAmericaLawFreedomCompassionLibertySacrificeCrimeExampleElementsOppositesFundamentalsConsistentHeritageTemperRestraintAbiding Author:Gerald R. Ford
“My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.” KnowsMatterPhilosophySpiritOppositesFundamentalsMaterialismAbsurdityAxiomsSpiritualism Author:Thomas Huxley
“Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.” MindCultureNamesPathMiddleConceptsOppositesFundamentalsUnionsWesternChineseInwardLackingTaoItemsMiddle Path Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
“One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.” WantMindPersonsIdeasPoliticalDifferencesPracticeHealthySafeEmpathyToolsOppositesFundamentalsShoesCaughtLike MeIdeologyThrivePeace Of MindCaught UpSpectrumFinding PeaceWant To Be HappyPolitical Spectrum Author:Mark Coleman
“In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.” DreamTasteOppositesUltimateFundamentalsReverse Book:Shattered Source: Shattered
“The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.” HumansEndsMomentsNaturalOppositesFundamentalsWoundsAbortionConceptionPro LifeRight To LifeCatholic Pro LifeDeep Wounds Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.” MenWayGivingMayPlaySeemsFacesBitsChangeKingsOppositesFundamentalsTyrannyPermanentDelusionCycles Author:H. L. Mencken