"Virtue and vice, strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness are
different aspects of the good and evil we see expressed all
around us. But instead of learning how to behave in relation to
these two poles of the one whole, humans constantly ask
themselves why God allows evil to exist. They must no longer ask
this kind of question but understand instead that good and evil
are intimately connected, because as complementary poles they
have matters they must deal with together.
Our life on earth is wholly conditioned by the alternation of
day and night, and this alternation, which governs the life of
all of nature, also governs our physical and psychic life. We
would not know what light is if darkness did not exist, nor what
wisdom, justice, beauty and joy are if we were not forced to come
up against stupidity, injustice, ugliness and sadness.
Understanding is born of comparison and confrontation. If
opposites did not exist, we would live in an undifferentiated
state. "
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
