- Slow and fast
- Forward and back
- Good and evil
- White and black
Dichotomous thinking can force you into being prematurely judgemental.
It’s important to understand that without knowing slow, you cannot know fast (and vice versa).
Without a sense of backward, which way is forward?
If you are a good person, you may favor good over evil. If you’re a bad person, evil may be your hobby or your job. But without understanding both good and evil, you’ll have no way of knowing which you are.
It’s the presence or absence of some selection of colors that creates all the other colors. To be seen, both black and white require that all the colors are either absorbed (black) or reflected (white). If a single color is not absorbed or reflected, you can’t see either black or white.
Just like the colors, people are all in it together.
Tolerance and an appreciation of diversity will help you survive.
Learning to see the world directly, rather than through a cloud of judgmental concepts, will make your life richer and fuller.