quotations about Yin & Yang
Yin-Yang is more then just a concept of opposites, it is the beginning of all things, an energy, a wholeness.
GARY ERICKSON
"Faculty Exhibit: Gary Erickson's Ceramics at Concordia", The Mac Weekly, November 22, 2013
Yin and yang are wonderful concepts, the balance and harmony of life.
CHRIS MIMNAGH
"The yin and yang of GP access", GP Online, March 14, 2017
In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.
BAI LI
The Selected Poems of Li Po
Yang ascends to Heaven; Yin descends to Earth. Hence the universe (Heaven and Earth) represents motion and rest, controlled by the wisdom of nature.
HUANG-TI
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
TED talk, Sep. 2008
Toned down too much, a female's natural yin is not apparent enough for the yang-meisters who control our politics, and they whisper the "L" word a lot and think they know what's what.
LEN HOLMAN
"Sarah Seeks Yang", Cosmoetica, Nov. 5, 2010
Yin and Yang are not oppositional but rather complementary forces. Yin and Yang are in no more conflict than the light of day is fighting the dark of night or the warmth of summer is battling with the cold of winter.
BRENDAN KELLY
The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis: Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine
A round of Yin, then
A round of Yang, that equals the Tao.
PADRAIC FALLON
A Look in the Mirror and Other Poems
Now yin and yang are born from congenital true unified qi. If one wishes to cultivate this congenital true unified qi and to maintain it without losing it, one must first begin with regulating yin and yang.... If we speak of the body, then the shoulders are yang, and the hips are yin. The shoulders must harmonize with the hips; this is the harmonizing of yin and yang.
JIN YUNTING
The Xingyi Boxing Manual, Revised and Expanded Edition
If you want to live a balanced life, you must admit human nature is yin and yang, day and night, love and hate, you can't reject it. It's all about embracing it, and celebrating the fact that we are weak, and out of that emerges great power.
ADAM DARSKI
"Love, sex, death and embracing your weaknesses", TeamRock, March 15, 2017
The concept of Yin-Yang is essentially simple, yet its influence on Chinese culture has been extensive. There is no aspect of Chinese civilization--including philosophy, medicine, sexology, politics, government, literature, and art--that has not been touched by this simple, powerful idea. According to Yin-Yang philosophy, all objects and events are the products of two elements, forces, or principles: Yin, which is negative, passive, weak, and destructive, and Yang, which is positive, active, strong, and constructive. It is quite possible that the two sexes, whether conceived in terms of female and male essences, the different social roles of women and men, or the structural differences between female and male sex organs, are not only the most obvious results of the workings of Yin and Yang forces, but major sources from which the ancient Chinese derived these concepts as well.
FANG FU RUAN
Sex in China: Studies in Sexology in Chinese Culture
Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.
FRAN DRESCHER
Cancer, Schmancer
She probably had to wield the yang side of her personality more often than maybe she felt comfortable with to make up for my dad's weakness. This left me with a negative mistrust of my yang power and a dependence on the yin for survival.
R. J. COLE
The Dragon's Treasure
The sexual union of male and female is thus regarded as the essential earthly manifestation of the great cosmic dance of Yin and Yang.
DANIEL REID
The Tao Of Health, Sex And Longevity
Nothing is completely yin nor is it completely yang. All things in the material universe contain the seed of their opposite force.... Therefore, yin can become yang and yang can also become yin, though both yin and yang are needed for the whole to be complete.
CHANG SOK SUH
Acupuncture Anatomy: Regional Micro-Anatomy and Systemic Acupuncture Networks
The motion of yin/yang is a circular one -- more a spiraling one -- ever changing between one phase and the other. As yin fulfills itself, inherent within it are the seeds of yang, and visa versa.
RODNEY L. TAYLOR
"Winter Solstice: A Confucian View", Huffington Post, February 23, 2013
The Pentacle -- The ancients envisioned their world in two halves -- masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.
DAN BROWN
The Da Vinci Code
Yin and Yang are the source of power and the beginning of everything in creation.
HUANG-TI
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
Yin and Yang are two convenient polar opposites that are used to explain how things function in relation to one another and to the universe. No entity can be seen in isolation; everything is connected.
W. JOHN DIAMOND
The Clinical Practice of Complementary, Alternative, and Western Medicine
Perhaps, he was useless in bed and therefore his unsatisfied wife had to look for alternative manhood to balance her Yin against another Yang.
ALEX LING
Golden Dreams of Borneo