Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness;
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Therefore having and not having arise together.
The long and the short offset each other;
The high and the low incline towards each other.
---Tao Te Ching (chapter 2)
Having and not having arise together...
I've been studying Taoism in World Religions and it is such a beautiful religion. Its all about balance between yin and yang, male and female, light and dark. Everything is relative. If I didn't know that this was true, I'd probably be melding into the Tao right now. But I can still love both.
