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Integrate Light and Shadow

Integrate Light and Shadow

Understand and accept both the light and shadow aspects of your personality. This integration can lead to greater self-awareness and personal growth.

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Alan Watts advocated balancing beneficence and rascality for a healthy life. Excessive virtue can lead to rigidity, while playful rascality promotes flexibility, creativity, and authenticity. Embracing the full spectrum of human nature helps achieve harmony between order and mischief.

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