Think of how many hit songs are about loss or breakups. The artist of course is acutely aware of this and cleverly transforms the experience of heartbreak and loss into music or art. What may seem like an unfortunate set of circumstances, may be the exact prescription or ‘wake up call’ one needs to make important life changes to move us forward. In many cases it is easy to rush to judgements about our fortune and fate. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you…. We see this concept alluded to in the brilliant lyrical language of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet, Rather, they are integrated into one cohesive system. Even when our ambitions come to fruition, the unpredictability and continual flux of the world implies that there is always a chance that whatever we attained can be lost.Ī key insight we can learn from Taoism is that the positive or negative or ‘good’ and ‘bad’ should not be thought of as distinct or separate. Anything worth pursuing is associated with risk and uncertainty.
Everything that exists has an opposite, just as there is always two sides to the same coin.Īlthough we are inclined to seek pleasure without pain or cling onto the ‘good’ while banishing the ‘bad’, we come to realize the flawed logic of this kind of thinking.
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Life is comprised of a series of interconnected opposing forces.
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