On Balance
On the subject of balance: many would imagine it as peace and harmony pervading throughout the sphere of life. A balance of nature, a balance of power among nations, an ordered and balanced household or community.
But balance is an ideal that never is the actual reality of the world and of our personal lives. Because the only even-leveling that could contain equilibrium would be total cessation. The antipode of vital and viable life.
Stability is what most actually conceptualize as a state of balance. Harmony as being under our control. But stability is transitory; life and the cosmic order are dynamic evolving changing through growth and decay. And never will there be control enough to bring about desired, even the needed harmonious balance. The smallest degree of un-levelness becomes the cumulative chain of progressive flux and upset.
Better than balance is resilience, imbalance and discord are the norm of existence. Our ability to persevere and to thrive intact is all an individual can hope to attain; to be a constant to the state of an ever changing and fragmenting milieu.
- On Balance - January 1, 2021
