By Gonny 
Sometimes your eyes land on a symbol you’ve seen a hundred times, and suddenly it feels like it wants to tell you something. That’s what happened to me with the yin-yang symbol. You know the one: that elegant circle where black and white swirl into each other, each holding a tiny dot of the other. Like a cosmic cuddle, really.
The symbol comes from ancient Chinese philosophy and tells a story without words: about light and dark, feminine and masculine, action and stillness, up and down. They seem like opposites, but they’re not fighting. They’re dancing. It’s not a battlefield….it’s a dance floor.
And as A Course in Miracles reminds us: “Opposites are illusions when you rest in truth.” In other words, things may seem different on the surface, but underneath, there’s only oneness.
Let me give you an example.
Imagine you’re on vacation with your partner. You want a quiet little mountain village; he dreams of a lively city full of culture and noise. It feels like you want completely opposite things! How will you ever agree?
Then, the miracle happens. You discover a small hillside town with a lively market and a peaceful garden. No one has ‘won’ and yet, it feels like you’re exactly where you’re meant to be. Yin and yang…one experience, not two.
Life often shows us that there is no real conflict between “this” or “that.” Only the ego thinks in either/or. Love thinks in both/and. And that’s where the magic happens.
The yin-yang symbol shows us that even in what seems “dark,” there’s already a seed of light. And that light only makes sense because of the contrast. As the Course says: “In the light of truth, differences disappear.”
The whole symbol is a circle, a reminder that everything belongs to a greater Whole. We’re not separate pieces, we’re waves in the same ocean of Awareness. And yes, even your grumpy morning mood and your sunny smile come from the same you. Ha!
So next time you think, “He doesn’t get me,” or “This doesn’t fit me,” take another look at that lovely round yin-yang symbol. It might whisper to you:
“There is no fight. Only an invitation to play together.”
With love and light,
G.