Heaven and Earth

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When thinking about polarities we usually choose one or the other. For instance in ‘good or bad’, we would like to pick ‘good’. In ‘warm or cold’ it is a matter of personal preference ~ yet we have a tendency to choose one or the other. And when I look around me, I see either people who are incredibly busy, or people who seem to be unable to ‘get stuff going’...
It is how polarities work, as they are two extremes of the same energy. So when that particular energy pops up in our lives, or in the country or culture we live in ~ both extremes come into play.

This is precisely what makes ‘Heaven and Earth’ such an interesting polarity!
See, the way we talk about it, or write about it, we don’t say: ‘Heaven or Earth’ ~ we say ‘Heaven and Earth’. While we can make a good argument about them being two extremes of the same energy ~ our environment ~ Heaven and Earth provide us with the arena we live and grow in; the space for our personal paths to unfold. And as such we don’t choose one or the other, but rather than seeing them as polarities we view them as a whole.

There are many ways to express this whole; Heaven and Earth, above and below, within and without, the God-father and the earth-mother... And then there are also past and future, day and night, Summer and Winter...To a certain extend they are all polarities that create a wholeness rather than to break apart the energy of which they express the extremes...

And in order to keep the arena in which we live our lives, walk our paths, from falling apart ~ we don’t choose a side to operate in; we want both. We want that wholeness. Because if there is a wholeness outside of ourselves, chances are we can find that wholeness inside of ourselves.

It is a balance created through bringing both polarities together.
And in that balance we, as human beings, tend to function well!

Which begs the question why we permit ourselves to leave so many other polarities unbalanced within ourselves and within our space. And yes, that does include the ‘biggies’ as well: peace or war, love or hate... Because the moment we get angry about the injustice of war, we have lost the peace within ourselves; and in a sense contribute to its polarity...

As long as we are confronted with these polarities, we may be best off to find in ourselves a state of grace, a tolerance that allows us to stay balanced within ourselves. To count our blessings.
To reach for both, Heaven and Earth...
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