February 20, 2024 – A

Greedy, selfish, ruthless, mean
seem to describe the worst of us.

Compassionate, just, gentle, kind
seem to do for the best of us.

With the rest of us falling out
between those extremes.

Everything takes its place
along the continuum between extremes.

"The Golden Mean" balances, harmonizes,
the Yin and Yang of too much and too little,
offsetting each other eternally
over all levels of existence,
with "relatively stable equilibrium"
being the best that can be hoped for
over varying degrees of time.

Keeping that in mind
with an eye on our own 
emotional/physical/psychological/etc.
states of being throughout each day,
gives us the ability to consciously
adjust the ups and the downs
in being "just here, now,"
ready for what comes
in a "this means that" 
or a "here we are, now what?" kind of way,
with the ideal being
that of "the still point
of the turning world,"
throughout time and space.

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