“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.” PeopleWorldPlayWholeReligionGamesWaterOppositesInfiniteSurfaceWhole WorldRisingInfinityBubblesRise AboveDualityBrahmanDissolving Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveStillsEarthFatherProcessSidesWaterChurchViewsCasesFailingLandCenturyTheoryShapesProveMassOppositesSaintFamiliarReasoningCoveredFifthAvoidedEndorsementsAugustineChurch Fathers Author:Saint Augustine
“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.” IfsWorldHeartSeemsEarthDesirePurposeWaterWealthResultsFireCreationThis WorldPrideConsciousOppositesLongingAddSatisfactionTreasureEaseFuelHonourConsumerismThirstOverconsumptionPetrolThirst For God Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh
“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.” ShouldHas BeensWaterRaceProgressRevolutionShould HaveOppositesInstinctRageImprovementResistanceReformStreamsThrownOverwhelmingConservatismFanaticismShould Have BeenBegetsSweepingImpedimentsObstructionUltras Author:Horace Mann
“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.” BookStatesHumanityLostWaterImaginationInterestingSeaLandDangerousPlanetsCivilizationLessonsNormalOppositesDifficultyIncreaseErrorsBoundsSpreadSurfaceSaltBarbarismHistory BooksSavageryRaritySalt Water Book:Image and Imagination Source: Image and Imagination
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.” IfsBodyEarthWaterForeverMaterialsMountainOceanAreasWeakOppositesAccountsHotWideSurfaceNineInvisibleIceChainsSandCentsLoadVolumeMudNinetyLoadedRemovalDepositsNinety NineUntouchablesLavaOcean Water Author:Reginald Aldworth Daly
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsArtRunningGrowsWaterMediaTenSkillsPerceptionMessagesMassOppositesSecondsHookMake You ThinkIconicMass MediaSensationalVasesDoggedness Author:Robert Hughes
“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?” IfsThinkingKindI CanFeelingsUniverseWaterCreativeGrowingLonelinessSmartOppositesBlessedBelongingBudUnfoldingAstonishmentCamaraderieBeing Blessed Author:Kathleen Moore
“This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.” IdeasNightCultureUniverseEvilBlackWaterWhitePerfectSunFireMoonConceptsFemaleOppositesHarmonyWesternMalesForgottenChinaSymbolsWheelsTaoWestern CultureDichotomyYangYin And Yang Author:Tiziano Terzani
“In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.” WorldGivingWaterElementsOceanOppositesDesertIslandsThemeDesirableAnchorsPrecarious Author:Vera Nazarian
“Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared a story he had often told in discourse of a man and woman who lived at opposite ends of a lake. They were deeply in love but only met by chance when sometimes out rowing on the water. He said it was beautiful how Shunyo and I met like this couple. When we had the feeling to be together, we would meet and enjoy. And when we were apart, we were also happy and content in our aloneness.” MenShouldSaidEndsSometimesStoriesFeelingsTogetherBeautifulUsedEnjoyWaterChanceExampleCoupleMetsMen And WomenOppositesRelateGirlfriendLakesDiscourseMy GirlfriendRowingHappy And ContentDeeply In Love Author:Swami Anand Milarepa
“Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.” PeopleWantI CanHateFightingWaterEnemyFireHatredOppositesHate You Author:Van Jones
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” IfsHas BeensReasonValuesWaterEconomyElementsAll ThingsGoldOppositesMetaphorLockedEcologyLocked UpMobilityFluidity Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.” FirstsFactsStrongWaterMissingOppositesMeetingsFruitBurningGentlemanSensationsMilkVery StrongExpectingJuiceDowningCognacFruit Juice Author:Gail Carriger
“Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.” MindBodyFormSoundSidesWaterDarknessFiguresMoonConsequenceAll ThingsOppositesMirrorsBuddhistWitnessInseparable Author:Dogen
“Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.” PersonsSometimesTogetherDesireHateWaterFireHatredOppositesOppositionBreastsLove And HateHatred And Love Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.” LifeWaterOppositesFlexibilityLife DeathRigidityIndicatorsSigns Of Life Author:Anthony Lawlor