William Shakespeare once said that one sure sign of a spiritually developing mind is its increasing capacity to simultaneously perceive the opposites. The following two Key Lessons help clarify this vital thought:

Once we understand that all forces — even the seemingly contradictory ones — are secretly complementary, we are well on our way to realizing the secret wholeness of life.

Freedom is not created, which means it cannot be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun; and we are never “nearer” to knowing this Freedom as our own than when we dare to enter the darkness within us armed only with the remembrance of this fact.