Everything is nothing. Nothing is everything.

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

People say this all the time, things don't happen to you, it happens FOR you. It's all about perspectives. The other day, a friend of mine and I had a great conversation. It was mainly about duality, perspectives, and moving forward. The world we live in, that's the world of duality, where everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Life and death coexists. Good and Evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, pain and healing, love and hate. We cannot see one without the there. Everything exist side by side.  Things are also permanent and temporary. What we see, what we feel, if every existence in this Universe is an energy, which I believe that's the case, the energy will remain in this realm in various form. Yet its physical form is so tangible and temporary. My mother always says that everything that has physical form will break sooner or later. It is the circle of life, isn't it? So, there might not even be any "true form" to begin with. It's all about how we see it. 

The more we take part in this spiritual journey, the more we learn about ourself. Our limiting beliefs, verbal or physical patterns, even personal or genetic history of the belief system... we become more aware of those things. We also become more aware of the new ways, the way of light, the way of love... And at one point or the other, we struggle to find the balance. We start feeling bad for not being able to see things or feel things from the way of love and light. We thought that we passed that part and moved on. We feel like we were back to the beginning and haven't grown. We feel even guilty for feeling this way. And if anything, the pain feels worse than before. The voice inside starts telling us that "you thought you were better? well, you thought wrong!" It is painful. A teacher told us that "You will experience the same issue over and over till you fully make peace with it. And the deeper the layer is, the longer it might stay. It may seem like you are just making the same circle over and over again. But the truth is that you are making the spiral. You keep moving upward, closer and closer to the light. So, you will experience those pain again and again, actually in a bigger scale each time". 

Everything is nothing and nothing is everything. 

What we see it as THE truth might not be the same for others. if we can all live in the place of love and compassion and peace, that will be ideal. And in the spiritual level, that's how I would love all of us to live. Yet, we also live in the physical world, where things are temporary. It doesn't mean that one is better than the other. We live in the both world at the same time. We need to learn to live in both world. And that's the journey we are on.

Love, Hope, Faith....