“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.” LightEyeBreakPathViolenceOppositesCastsRefuseShut UpCentreImpatientObscurity Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
“The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.” MenStatesWisdomFacesPoliticsEconomyPathTakenRevolutionOppositesLiberalismCommunistCapitalistOwnershipPreventing Author:Louis O. Kelso
“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
“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.” IfsThinkingWorldHeartRealityJoyWonderStepsPathFlowerWalkingMindfulnessMachinesOppositesInfiniteEngagedVillageEnabling Author:Nhat Hanh