Synthesis
To live is to walk the path of creative tension. Every day, we are pulled in different directions, between order and chaos, between habit and improvisation, between living and dying. Our lives are like a garden: too much control (like manicured lawns) and it’s neat, but boring and lifeless; too much freedom (like wild spaces) and it’s exciting, but unwieldy and unmanageable. And so we dance the cosmic dance of yin and yang, according to Taoist philosophy; we wrestle with thesis and antithesis, according to Immanuel Kant. And from these is born Tao (the way) and synthesis (transcendent reality).
— Wayne Visser
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