November 29, 2023 – B

Yin/Yang is a Taoist symbol
representing the power of contradictions
when they are perceived, 
not as polarities,
but as partners.

All of our dichotomies are false dichotomies!
All of our contradictions are, in fact, complementaries!

Rumi said, "Darkness is the cradle of light."
There you have it.

Opposites befriend one another,
they do not cancel each other out,
or offset each other,
or negate the impact of the other.

Where would electricity be without opposing poles?
Where would we be without the opposites within
enabling us to exhibit the amazing combinations
that make us us?

When we embrace our contraries, 
within and without,
we expand our base of experience
and enlarge our circle of influence
by embracing all we are
and allowing that to enable us to 
enhance our weaker functions
and rounding ourselves out
in light of all that we are
in a "this is who I am,
and this is also who I am,"
kind of way,
rather than trying to overcompensate
for what we take to be negative about us
and overstating what we take to be positive.

Our contraries bring us forth
when we accept them for what they are,
and enable us to be who we are fully capable of being
in situations that call for all we have to offer.

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