October 15th 2023: VALUE POLARITIES

Andrew Welch is back to share his 2nd Perspective(s) in a series on values and the challenges of humanity.

He'll relate his ground-breaking discovery that makes qualitative values such as justice, compassion, and spirituality, accessible to rational study. Explore his theory's potential for helping us manage inner conflicts, as well as see our connection to nature, which embodies the polarity principle to sustain growth and sufficiency.

See in a whole new way!

First Reading is from Libba Bray

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiarascuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real.  

We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

Second Reading  is by Victoria Erickson

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.  I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently.  I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. 

This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts.  We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding.  

Be water.  Flowing, flexible and soft.  Subtly powerful and open.  Wild and serene.  Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides.  It is enough.