In order for the light

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

~Sir Francis Bacon

All religions

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate...

~Walter Benjamin

Who knows

Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?

~Euripedes

Everything is dual

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has it's pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

~The Kybalion

Life contains

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

~George Bernard Shaw

I have found

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

~Mother Teresa