Choosing one side and preferring it – dualism
- Guide / Contemplation
- Marina Bonnet Bärfuss, Richard Rohr
- Published
- August 2021
About this Meditation
I was trying to illustrate dualism in a simple way while I was in Iceland. Then we found that place by chance and it made sense: in the middle of this canyon, a stream of life, one side and the other side. Life is flowing in the middle of both side...
The dancer has chosen her side and it's quite difficult then to cross the canyon.
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