Alyssa Skyes

Duality 

On polarity and the structure of existence.​​​​​

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—One side in form will always be twofold. Such is the architecture of form.​

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—In the realm of duality, the moment goodness appears, the possibility of its opposite must also exist.​

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—All of life is polarity: good and evil, love and hate, light and dark, certainty and doubt. Each implies the possibility of the other.​

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—Individually and collectively, the more we love, the more love grows. The more we hate, the more hate grows. And so it is with all things.

 

—Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is missing.​

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—Duality lives in every one of us. We hold the capacity for good and harm. We cannot erase it, but we are responsible for the parts we choose to express.​

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—Relief exists only because tension exists.​

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—Every cell in our bodies searches for the infinite.

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​—Polarities or dualities are inherent to life as we know it.​

 

—I often ask how a higher power could allow suffering. Yet life within form is governed by duality, where gain and loss arise from the same and ever changing structure of existence.​

 

—Experience itself requires contrast.​

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—Consciousness is the meeting point of the greatest duality: form and the formless.​

 

—The polarities of human existence cannot be erased. We may strive to better ourselves and to lessen harm, yet contrast remains part of form. To accept this is not to excuse evil, but to understand the conditions from which it arises and how humanity comes to act as it does. Moral responsibility still belongs to us, for evil and harm do not wait in some distant afterlife; they live and are created within human awareness here.​

 

—In this world of form, with its endless dance of dualities, our own transformation is the only change we can truly control.​

 

—We cannot eradicate the potential for harm from humanity, but we can reduce its expression by becoming more conscious of our own participation in it. If even a small part of humanity took that to heart and focused on their own refinement, it would have more impact than the habit of constant blame we see today.​​

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—I saw how we enter this world of form through pure goodness, and how the existence of form itself creates a counterpart to everything—even if only through absence. In this realm of duality, the moment goodness appears, the possibility of its opposite must also exist. From these two extremes, the full spectrum of human experience is born—every emotion, every intention, every reaction, and every possibility in between.​