Two Sides of a Coin and Why We Can’t Escape Duality of Life

Being raised in an atheists’ family, I often looked at people from all sorts of religious and spiritual backgrounds and wondered why they were doing all these strange things they were doing. I’m sure that they are wondering the same thing while looking at atheists like myself or followers of other different religions of the world. Rarely, if ever, we meet people who will question their own faith. In the end, it is not surprising. Faced with the complexity of life, our spiritual practices, and the universe, we can often find pro’s and con’s of every approach, hence giving way to a concept which we will call: the duality of life.

What is the Duality of Life?

But, if we don’t know or understand something today, while millions of other people do, it is likely that other people know something that we don’t. It may be unknown to us today but can hold an exciting piece of information that has the potential to change our lives. In this respect, it is interesting to challenge our assumptions by studying things that we don’t quite understand or plain disagree with. Only by being open and looking at the other side of a coin we can learn new truths.

In this respect, I like the statement that claims that every argument sounds excellent until we hear the other side. I often listen to people being very opinionated about specific points of view, utterly unaware of the opposite argument. What they say makes sense until it is challenged, and suddenly it doesn’t make sense. So, can the opposite be true too?

Often it is, but only to a certain extent. Radical points of view are mostly incorrect. There are always two sides to everything, like yin-and-yang. And while some things seem obvious to us today, like don’t kill and don’t use drugs, in some particular occasions and to some people, these views will make sense.

The solution, of course, is to do both. It is to be our own devil’s advocate. We should be able to argue both sides of our views. Until then, all our beliefs can be baseless, uninformed, and often wrong. True mastery comes when we can accept and reject specific ideas at the same time.

Roman Russo

Roman Russo

Roman Russo is the visionary founder, senior happiness coach, and Chief Happiness Officer of Optimal Happiness. He has written the revolutionary Optimal Happiness: The Fastest and Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential, a must-read book about achieving our happiest potential. After researching this field for over eight years, Roman is confident that anyone can become happy and invites us to undertake this transformation. Are you ready to start living the life you always meant to live?

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