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circular symbol consisting of a white and black droplet (☯ ), representing thefusion of the concepts ofyin andyang
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Examples
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I am so sick and tired of these Republicans that will bend over and take it up the yin-yang wazoo for 'foreigners' – but hate their own.
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And while most of us don't have Benjaminz coming out the yin-yang, it's an important thing to consider.
Meredith Fineman: On Money & Dating. Meredith Fineman 2011
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There are so many bipolar paradigms to choose from in order to almost appear interesting to people who share your cultural neuroses—a veritable yin-yang of choices, in fact.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Their yin-yang forms hug their supports' edges and corners, and convey a sense of tension between gravity and ascension; moving and stopping; pulling left and right.
Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011
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Despite having requested some fairly harmless ink -- a yin-yang symbol and some dragons -- the man returned home to discover a 16-inch penis and an obscene, albeit misspelled, slogan "implying that he was gay," the Ipswich Queensland Times reports.
Penis Tattoo By Australian Artist Leads To Charges Curtis M. Wong 2010
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And a dragon around a yin-yang - when he was 18, he just picked something random.
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"Marriages are often a yin-yang balance, which is to say, the weaker Rick becomes, the stronger Lori will become to support him."
Mega Buzz: Paget Brewster's Minds Exit, a Grey's Rebound, and a New Lady for Horatio 2011
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It's this yin-yang cycle repeating itself to the point that we can't commit to one school of thought or the other that reminds me of the void in our critical reception of sculpture.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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But somehow they are united, yin-yang style, by Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, with which Malick seems to be in some kind of debate throughout The Tree Of Life.
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Despite having requested some fairly harmless ink -- a yin-yang symbol and some dragons -- the man returned home to discover a 16-inch penis and an obscene, albeit misspelled, slogan "implying that he was gay," the Ipswich Queensland Times reports.
Penis Tattoo By Australian Artist Leads To Charges The Huffington Post News Team 2010
uselessness commented on the word yin-yang
One evening an old Indian Chief told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"
"The one you feed," replied the Indian Chief.
February 13, 2007
oroboros commented on the word yin-yang
And if one starves, YOU die...
May 1, 2007
uselessness commented on the word yin-yang
I like to think that if my Evil wolf starves, and my Good wolf prevails, there are enough others in the world who have allowed the opposite to happen. Balance still exists, but the conflict has shifted from within me to the world at large. So I'm not just spinning my wheels in place, but actively making a difference. I haven't died; I've only begun to live.
May 1, 2007
oroboros commented on the word yin-yang
Can one thread of the Cosmos pluck out another? If the warp could pluck out the woof, so much for the weave. See also enantiodromia, panentheism and hylopathism.
May 1, 2007