Balance
“A glass cannot be half full unless it is also half empty. If a psychologist places such a glass before you and asks you what you see, the right answer is supposed to be: “A glass that’s half full.” That’s supposed to show a tendency toward optimism rather than pessimism or depression. Yet I would disagree with that alleged right answer because its incomplete. It’s unbalanced. Why does one’s attitude have to be outweighed by optimism rather than balanced with a perception of actual reality, of seeing the glass as both half full and half empty? To my way of thinking, the right answer is to see it both ways instead…
…Balance.
The balance of life is never in such an exacting and pure form as it is in nature. Nature is unbiased. It has not personalized affectations such as the ego or individual agendas. Life is instinctual-natural. The Grand Balance to Nature is that it is both half full and half empty.”
– Mary Summer Rain, The Tao of Nature, p. 120-121
