Duality

“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. 

In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. 

Ignorance is a condition of learning. 

Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.” 
― Robert Anton Wilson, Leviathan

So, I was assigned to lead a meditation on "Good and Evil" from "the Prophet" by Khalil Gibran this week. And funny enough, right after that I had a great conversation with group of people about conflicting feelings of good and evil.

When people started to focusing on good things, being grateful, have gratitude, starting to live in light, whenever the weakness, sadness or any negative feeling comes up, they start to feel guilty. I should be living with the positive attitude. I should not be feeling this way. My life isn't that bad, why am I feeling this way. I should be grateful instead of feeling this way... So the guild comes up. Having all those feelings doesn't make you good or bad. It doesn't make you any less of a person. It only makes you a human. Is it wrong to have those so called "negative" feelings? Why can't those just be feelings? It doesn't mean you have to push those feelings aside and ignore it. You have to allow yourself to feel those emotions. It's there for a reason. and there's absolutely nothing wrong with you. Choosing to live the way of light, doesn't mean that you are perfect, nor imperfect. It just means that you choose to see things and live your life from the place of love.

"You are good when you are one with yourself.

Yet, when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.

For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. 

A ship without rudder may wander aimlessly amount perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

You are good when you strive to give of you.

Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself."

-Kahalil Gibran-

We are all one and yet we are all different. We both have two opposing elements within us. Everything coexists. There's always beginning and the end. Yes and No. Good and Evil.  People often say that in order for you to see the light, you have to be in the darkness. it's the similar thing. In order for you to be kind and compassionate, you have to learn the pain. In order for you to be positive, you have to know the negative. In order for you to be loved, you have to first know how to love. Just because you know the pain, anger, or negative feelings, it doesn't make you any less. You just know the both side. You just know the options you can take.  It just makes you YOU. You You are enough. Choose love for others, choose love for yourself. Allowing yourself to feel those emotions is love. Be kind to yourself. Be love for yourself. Be you. 

Love, Hope, Faith