From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 7/30/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #209] Dichotomy
"I believe that joy is always present and that we experience joy as we allow ourselves to be seen, taking off our masks. My experience is that as I express my feelings, I am able to accept and experience the love that is underneath. I know that happiness is not dependent on the circumstance of our lives. I know that emotions are energy in motion. They are neither good nor bad, right nor wrong. I know that emotions give us important information. I know that every moment we choose self-defeating or life-giving behaviors. I know that we can feel angry and choose a life-giving behavior to deal with it. I know that I am free to choose how I respond to every circumstance of my life."
- Rev. Eddy Brame, personal communication
I was astounded when I first learned that physicists think of light as both particle and wave. My high school mind wasn't prepared to give up its habit of dichotomizing. How can photons act like a wave? There must be some mistake!
A similar tendency abounds in other debates: nature v. nurture, capitalism v. communism, and feelers v. thinkers. Whenever I find myself espousing a polarity of some sort, it's probably a good time to raise hand to chin and say something like: "Interesting that I'm so certain there is one way to see this. I wonder what that is about."
Exercise: Dialogue about a topic which you have adopted a polar position.
Affirmation: We are noticing connections and similarities as well as differences.
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