Prompt – Opposites
May 5th, 2008
For today’s prompt I picked “Opposites” or “Paradoxes” depending on preference. For something I like to babble and theorize about quite a bit I had an amazingly hard time with this prompt but I’m going to assume it’s mostly because Crystal and I stopped doing them for awhile as we were both consumed with stuff during April.
Oh and by the way, Jo has recently joined our little prompt writing circle. *dances around happily* I’ll update this post as soon as they get their’s up so you can read and enjoy theirs as well.
[Edit: You can now find Crystalina's response here.]
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This way and that.
Here and then there.
Right or wrong or left or right or upside down!
Turn and turn and turn again.
Walk one way and another and another and another until you’ve no place left to turn.
Of everything and nothing.
The paradox of incomplete completion.
A perfect imperfection.
Equal and not so.
Feeling and numb
Reaching and falling.
Failing and flying.
Singing and seeing and loving and being!
Walking and running.
Turning and burning.
One thing of all things and all things of no thing.
Opposite and opposite and same.
One, none, all.
Notice how the Yin (female)
and the Yang (male) share a
common border on the diagram.
I believe that is because they have much in common with each
other, even though they are individual in their own way.
Each completes the other so
neither is superior or inferior.
When the Yin and the Yang are in harmony there is great power
and beauty.
Hello Struggle for Justice, thankies for visiting my blog. :)
Very true via the border. Opposites are just two sides of a greater whole, and sometimes they’re not even two sides but two different ways of looking at something.
When I first stared out studying Taoism one of the first things I red about was the yin and the yang and how each side completely the other. How one color just becomes the other as you go around and how the two really have so much in common. Alas, I could go on and on about. I love discussing things like this quite often. :)