Duality

We believe we live in a world of duality. We sometimes refer to this as opposites. We think of up and down, hot and cold, and good and evil. When we look at the reality of these concepts we see that they may be more representative of extremes along a continuum. When we look at up and down, think about two people on a seesaw. At one point they are perfectly even in their positions. It is not a matter of either/or. The same is true of temperatures. We tend to think of hot as boiling and cold as freezing, yet there are so many other temperatures in between. Is everything that is not good evil and vice versa? We live in a world more accurately described as filled with variations along continuums. This may be helpful when we are making statements about what we perceive as our current condition. When we say that we are broke or alone, we may need to question whether or not we are validly expressing an extreme or what we see as duality. Like the examples cited earlier, conditions change. When we change our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, a shift in our conditions is bound to occur. What do you think about in terms of duality?