Duality
For so long, duality has been admonished as something to avoid in the spiritual realms...that the goal is oneness to avoid the pitfalls of polarity. What if, as in this plant, the polarity creates a balance, and that IS the oneness? How can you know yourself without something to compare it to? How can you know love in the absence of fear? Duality is the greatest gift, albeit our learning platform, always providing the opportunity to create a whole from the halves.
This plant has leaves that are opposing, or opposite of each other. It creates a balancing structure, not its demise. So much of the conversation for the past 30+ years has been around moving past duality, the curse of humanity. This again goes back to perspective. If your life has been challenging and you've felt taken advantage of, or victimized, you may genuinely believe that the duality is at the root. You are correct, in that the duality is showing you the opportunity to heal a perspective and bring it into balance. This is true of anything that brings you to anger or more correctly, fear.
This may seem insensitive or heartless, and perhaps it is when viewed from a single existence perspective. If all lifetimes and experiences were laid out, you would notice a certain pattern of action creating reaction, of yin meeting yang, as we learn both sides of issues and flow from predator to prey, abuser to abused, so on and so on. What we experience as duality is part of the natural unfolding of life. It is not judgmental nor does it pick sides. It simply operates along the axis of action and correlating reaction. As we fully learn the lesson from both sides, it ceases to energetically engage us and we incorporate the lesson into our core, our integrity and therein lies the One. How interesting that the place we are trying to get to is achieved through the path that we are running from! This would explain why so many are having challenges with achieving oneness.
This also explains why one person will have a very energetic reaction to a situation while another, experiencing the same thing, will have no reaction at all. Not out of apathy or being shut down, but from the standpoint of understanding all perspectives because they have been there...and so no judgment remains because they have played all sides.
