थे तवो यू'S

THE TWO YOU’S-DUALITY
Understand dualities
"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other." -- Deepak Chopra

Life is full of dualities, opposites. Despite their apparent opposition, each extreme in a duality is necessary to fully actualize the other. Each depends on the existence of the other. For example, we cannot know honesty if we don't know deception.

The key is to not resist or suppress the negative. We need to acknowledge its existence, though we may choose not to express it. When we embrace wholeness, we move to a higher perspective.

"The light which man has discovered within himself makes him more aware of the dark; through the good which attracts him, he sees the evil which is the line of least resistance; the activity leading to pain simultaneously permits him to visualize the contrasting pleasure, and thus he experiences something of both hell and heaven." -- Aart Jurriaanse
I love the concept of duality, and became very aware of it in doing an in depth study of Eckhart Tolle’s best seller-“A New Earth”. I know there is duality within me- what am I saying when I make a statement like “I’m angry with myself for doing that.” Who is mad at whom? Something to really think about.
The process of transforming my life and going through co-creative life recover hinged on accepting the “duality within”. As my mentor Dr. Randin Bron states in his above quoted Idea Engineer, “we may choose not to express it”. In my own case, the negatives had taken over from the positives and I was truly unhappy.
The positive, the “good within” remains there although it can be suppressed deeply over time. The statement “I am angry with myself” is just one small example of how the “good” that is me continues to question things.
The biggest part of my journey has been to appreciate the negative exists, but to listen to the good that is within me and act, on an ever increasing basis, to this part of me.
I have discovered, through the help of trained others, “the light man has discovered within himself”. I had become well aware of the dark and lived in a world dominated by negatives.
If this article makes you curious and caused thought, I’d love to hear your thoughts. (www.hopeserenity.ca Keith Bray)