Suppose you are the embodiment of Eternal Motion. You constantly measure distance and speed. Your medals for breaking records no longer fit on the wall. Progress excites you like an aphrodisiac.
How would you respond to a representative of Absolute Stillness?
His values don't just oppose yours—they provoke a full-scale Ragnarök, the final battle between chthonic monsters and gods. Of course they do: for you, a pause, stillness, and paralysis are death.
What are the chances you could understand each other? Zero.
That means nothing new can emerge. When like meets like, the world becomes sterile. A royal dynasty collapses when it practices incest.
So when does synthesis, not decay, happen?
Only in one case—when the apostle of Eternal Motion acknowledges the "dirty stain" of Absolute Stillness within himself. And vice versa.
We understand the new and the unknown only through association with something old and familiar. Learning something new is an act of recognition. It happens by finding a shared trait between two different things.
When light finds a drop of darkness within itself, the dance of day and night begins.
A workaholic, for example, might be shocked to discover that injections of Absolute Stillness boost his productivity tenfold. Meanwhile, a reclusive intellectual may find unexpected joy while planting the seedlings of shared ideas in the soil.
If you want your Work to thrive, first unite the polarities within yourself.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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