Steve,

It seems the entire premise of Western thought is finding the source, essence, singular, truth, etc.

Yet what if reality really is a dichotomy. The yin and yang?

Even dialectics seems more about finding the synthesis, than understanding the tension and balance between the thesis and antithesis is reality.

Consider the absolute, the undivided state is in contrast to the infinite.

As people, we are that tension between desire and judgement. The head and the heart. One pushing, the other steering. Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise, so there is that constant fluctuation. Yet we seem to want some resolution, some final answer, but without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

What is our nature, without nurture? What is inside, without outside, good without bad, etc.

If there were no tensions, conflicts, distinctions, differences, there would be nothing. Even matter is more a polarity of charge, than some singular substance.

When we don't see both sides, we do spiral off into extremes. That feedback loop that builds to a shriek, rather than the harmony of the elements playing off each other.