Things And Their Opposites And The Cone Of Attention
All things are one.
The one is all things.
They fall together.
No resistance.
A thing without opposites does not exist.
Call it the polarity principal.
“The way up and the way down are one and the same,”
wrote the philosopher Herakleitos.
“As man evolves tools, tools in turn evolve man,”
wrote Guy Murchie in The Seven Mysteries of Life.
The cone of attention
is the brain’s way
of escaping the danger zone,
be it the rattling of the viper
or the false alarm
of unbridled fears.
Both bring heart and mind
into sharp focus,
whether to our benefit
or our detriment.
You are not alone.
You and I share
the same conundrum.
That is why I regularly
remind myself…
…not everything is as it seems.
We are in this together.
Hopefully, in collaboration,
we will spiral upwards
in lieu of going round in circles.
That is my hope and my prayer.
“We simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line — we thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end — success or maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along: it was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.” — Alan Watts
