Contradictions within the mind
I just came across some information related to self-actualisation and personality theory/
There exist polar opposites in an individual.
Consider the following polar opposites:
1) regarding everything as infinitely meaningful vs regarding everything as completely meaningless or absurd,
2) having a deadly serious temperament vs having a playful, joking temperament,
3) the experience of Being vs the experience of Nothingness or Non-Being,
4) Identifying oneself with everything vs nothing,
5) the experience of freely-willed actions vs the experience of actions beyond one's will,
6) the experience of being passionate and attached vs the experience of detachment.
The point is that the self-actualized individual will have or experience many of these polar opposites, at different times, but more importantly, simultaneously. I don't doubt that experiencing polar opposites simultaneously can be a disturbing thing for some, but the reconciliation of these opposites is one of the keys, I think, to Self-Actualization because it allows one to go beyond opposites and contradictions. One is no longer trapped within one or another 'perspective', but instead realizes all of them simultaneously.
There exist polar opposites in an individual.
Consider the following polar opposites:
1) regarding everything as infinitely meaningful vs regarding everything as completely meaningless or absurd,
2) having a deadly serious temperament vs having a playful, joking temperament,
3) the experience of Being vs the experience of Nothingness or Non-Being,
4) Identifying oneself with everything vs nothing,
5) the experience of freely-willed actions vs the experience of actions beyond one's will,
6) the experience of being passionate and attached vs the experience of detachment.
The point is that the self-actualized individual will have or experience many of these polar opposites, at different times, but more importantly, simultaneously. I don't doubt that experiencing polar opposites simultaneously can be a disturbing thing for some, but the reconciliation of these opposites is one of the keys, I think, to Self-Actualization because it allows one to go beyond opposites and contradictions. One is no longer trapped within one or another 'perspective', but instead realizes all of them simultaneously.

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