"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty, only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Being and nonbeing produce each other. The difficult is born in the easy. Long is defined by short, the high by the low. Before and after go along with each other. So the sage lives openly with apparent duality and paradoxical unity. - 2nd Verse of the Tao Te Ching

In this weeks episode, we have a lot of questions and thoughts hehe.. we discuss the concept of the duality of life and how understanding it and most importantly accepting it.. can change the way we perceive our life!! Some specific topics we question are:

- can two things both be true at the same time ?

- the conflict and struggle of wanting and striving for self improvement and how that contradicts with self acceptance and self love

- how we're allowed to feel all the emotions present in the human experience at the same time

- how duality is present in both the human experience and in nature

- Is it true that you can only fully know one thing by understanding its opposite ? (love + loss, success + failure, dark + light, the good + the bad) ?

song reference: Happy & Sad by Kacey Musgraves

join us for the journalling challenge this week as we keep track of all of the supposedly contradicting moments of extreme emotion that we feel throughout each day!

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https://youaligned.com/the-duality-of-life/

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