If That Wasn't There, You Would Not Be Here.

 Underneath opposite/contrast there is harmony.

Underneath duality there is unity.

Alan Watts 

Hmmm! I am seeing that more and more.  I am seeing how we cannot have one without the other.  We cannot have light without darkness; we cannot have a coming without a going; we cannot have pleasure without pain; we cannot have good without bad; we cannot have right without left. The meaning of absolutely everything is relative and its very existence is interdependent on the existence of the "other."  

Existence  is releationship.

So the opposites come together to form one thing or a no-thing. Though we may see a vast distinction between right and wrong, for example, ...right and wrong do not see it in themselves. They come together as they are meant to. We may not "see" this unity on the surface but it is there. We cannot have spring and rebirth without winter and death.  They seem like opposites but they are totally related and interdependent. 

Duality is always secretly unity.

Everything is  meant to be and everything comes together, folds in and out, winds around the other   to form the perfect fabric  of the universe. Absolutely everything is necessary underneath our limited understanding of it. 

Everything reflects off of everything else...so if one of those "things" is missing...the other cannot be seen or known, therefore cannot exist. 

If "Left" was missing...there would be no "Right", would there?  Can there be an absence of"Right" as long as there is a "Left"?  Take a piece of paper and cut the right side of it off.  Will all that you have then,  be  a left side?  Were you are able to get rid of the right side ?  Of course not... you may have a thinner piece of paper but you have a left and right.  You can snip and snip and snip but you will not get rid of the right side until you get rid of the left...until there is no paper to cut. This interdependence beteen what seems to be contrast cannot be removed. We are just one of many of these things. Our very existsence is dependent on the  existence of everything else.

If that there wasn't there you wouldn't be here. 

If there was no other being or thing in the universe  to see, hear you, touch you etc you  would not exist, would you? Your being here is dependent on them being here.  

In the same way we all come from the same Source...we are splatters of stardust scattered around the earth. Whatever had an impact making some of that stardust look and behave a certain way, had an impact making you look or act a certain way.  Whatever affects the molecule structure of anything on this planet will have an effect on you.  If that  knob on the trunk of the tree in the corner of your yard was not there, you would  not exist ( at least not in the way you are existing now). Whatever made that knob the way it was will affect you and make you the way you are. 

There is a law of connectivity and interdependence to everything... creating an intricate Web of Life  that determines how things manifest in this world. Everyting is relationship becasue existence is relationship.

Fascinating, isn't it? 

All is well.

Alan Watts/True inspiration (December, 2017) The Web of Life ( Interdependence of All Things) by Alan Watts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPaSiVc75w8

Think about that for a while.