Thanks, SoulSource and InquiringMind, for your encouragement and insights.
Yes, I think history has shown (and is showing) that there will always be a balance between Light and Dark - Yang and Yin - in all human endeavors on all scales. Within the individual, there is always tension between what I want to do versus what I know I ought to do. Within society, there is tension between those who are inclined to build up others versus those who want to tear them down. And between societies, there is tension as we seek to secure dwindling resources to ensure our own survival at the expense of others.
Depending on who is wanting what and when, one person's Heaven can be another's Hell. This duality seems to be an integral aspect of our reality at a certain level. The highest state comes when the two opposites merge into one unified Whole. Admittedly, that seems impossible to do: mix Fire and Ice, and you get something very different from Fire and Ice. How can the two exist independently, yet as One? And somehow, they must.
How do I react when a criminal breaks into my house to rob and rape me, then slithers triumphantly back into the darkness to digest his blood feast?
Feel the feeling, feel the power in the feeling, feel myself feeling the feeling, feel myself feeling the power in the feeling ....
Yes, in time, perhaps the criminal will pay for his actions. And, yes, in time, perhaps I will forgive and forget him. I wonder, though, whether true enlightenment comes when I realize that he and I are one and the same being. Fire and Ice. How can the two exist in the same place at the same time?
