Breaking The Glass Cover On Your Heart
How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave the water? . . . You must have shadow and light-source both! Listen, and lay your head under the Tree of Awe. I can explain this, but it would break the glass cover on your heart, . . . Jalalu'ddin Rumi

--- there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: Without this sting of otherness, of - even - the vicious, without the terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness -- what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent - these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. ---- Doris Lessing

When in Goethe's Faust the devil is being asked; Who are you then? He answers: Part of that power which would the Evil ever do, and ever does the Good.

... man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites -- day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. ---- C.G. Jung

Homer was wrong when he said: Would that Strife might perish from among Gods and men! He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of everything; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away. (Fragment 43) ---- Heraclitus

In Chinese Taoism, the Yin-Yang symbol represents the alliance of opposite forces as they flow into one another; but in addition each pole contains the other in eternal embrace, inextricably linked by their very nature. ---- C. Zweig

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching has many cryptic lines about this strange and paradoxical relationship of apparently very unlike forces; e.g., When all the world knows goodness as good, then there is evil, (2) says that the extremes of opposite forces or qualities become identical. And the line, The One produces the Two, and so All Things carry Yin and hold to Yang, (42) implies that an original harmonious (symmetric) force has produced all existing forces in this world by 'temporarily' splitting or breaking into its opposite or complementary parts. (Unity of Opposites)

In physics, Niels Bohr showed that the concept of 'complementarity' is also the key to an understanding of the paradoxical results in quantum mechanics. To day, scientists agree that all four (known) physical forces of this universe have also sprung from a single original force by a successive breaking of inherent symmetries. (These are the Yang-Mills field Symmetries, breaking during the first .0001 seconds of the universe) While these physical phenomena can still be understood, if only by the best of our scientific minds, the 'transcendental' forces, postulated by Heraclitus and Lao Tzu cannot, they are beyond our level of consciousness. The Tao cannot be named. (1) Heraclitus and Lao Tzu are saying that the symmetry (harmony) of transcendental forces (God) had to be broken into their inherent opposites to provide the necessary creative tension for a continuing evolution and a creative growth of our souls. Lao Tzu says: Polarity causes the movement [tension leading to action] of the Tao . . . The world and All Things evolve [are created] from its existence. (40 ) --- The Tao is the <Construction principle of Everything>.

In the Beginning were no Words, but God THOUGHT: (To Herself, no one else was there!)
“I'm Bored, Let's Go For Broke!” And with One-Hand-clapping, she made a Big-Bang