The Two Paths of Yin and Yang
pair off in different configurations
throughout our life.
We are always walking
two paths at the same time.
And the better able we are to do this,
the better everything will be
all the way around.
We balance/harmonize opposites
by the way we relate to them
always and forever.
There is the care/don't care paradox.
We have to live as though we care
when we don't care at all,
and, of course, vice-versa.
We have to live like it matters
when it doesn't matter one bit.
And, vice-versa.
We have to put ourselves on the line
every day,
and we have nothing to lose all of the time.
Etc. And so on and so forth. Like that. Without end.
Squaring up to eternal incompatibilities,
embracing the contradictions,
reconciling in our own bodies
mutually-exclusive polarities,
and bearing the pain
of how things are
and how things also are
is the very essence of being alive.
It is how we get up and face the day
every day,
as though we mean it
when we had rather be somewhere else,
anywhere else,
all the time--
because everything depends on it,
and that is how it is,
and also is.
World without end.
Amen.
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
I read somewhere once, that the truth is a paradox, something that we can often not fathom by the means of our linear thinking. What you describe here illustrates that paradox, inherent in every occasion of our routine daily life. Exploring further the same theme, this balance and harmony which comes from within the apparent contradictions- is perhaps in the attitude of how we meet each moment- reconciling the diverse perplexing choices, by simultaneous synthesis and transcendence of the opposites! This must be what Buddhists call the middle way and the ‘way’ of the Taoists 🙂
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We are the harmony the, what shall we call it, “the all that is and is not (yet),” seeks. We pull it all into our consciousness–though it isn’t “ours” at all, and we all participate in consciousness in varying degrees according to our ability to embrace the humor at the heart of consciousness and relax into how things are and also are at the same time, absurd and wonderful, etc. We harmonize all of it by the way we perceive it, see it, hear it, know it, comprehend it…etc. We are the all that is and is not (yet)’s way of self-realization, self-expression, self-awareness, etc., the mirror to the allness of the all, bringing knowing into harmony with being and doing, and the all that, etc., rejoices and says “WOW!” along with us each time we say it, which is pretty much all the time. Realization is the heart of the allness of the all. “There is only the dance” (T.S. Eliot). And that is only one way of seeing how things are and also are, which is also the dance…
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