Only when we see that our thoughts, judgments, and opinions are just as true as their opposites are the polarities of thought balanced. If the opposing thought is just as true as the thought I believe, then the whole structure of thought collapses. If an opinion that is different from mine has just as much right to exist as mine does, then it’s impossible to say which opinion is real or true. They’re both either real or not real. When we see this, there’s an internal balancing of the opposites, and thought is no longer polarized. Only when thought is balanced in this way does the dualistic
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