Unless you let
the truth of life teach you on its own terms, unless you develop some concrete
practices for recognizing and overcoming your dualistic mind, you will remain in
the first half of life forever—as most humanity has up to now. In the first half
of life, you cannot work with the imperfect, nor can you accept the magic sense
of life, which finally means that you cannot love anything or anyone at any
depth. Nothing is going to change in history as long as most people are merely
dualistic, either-or thinkers. Such splitting and denying leaves us at the level
of mere information.
Whole people see
and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in
everything and everybody. We are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in
parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts—so
many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of
all things, including ourselves. I promise you this unified field is the only
and lasting meaning of up.
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