Existence appears double-sided. There's a North and South Pole. Left-wingers and right-wingers. A positive electrical charge, and a negative. A one, a zero. A man, a woman. Our very bodies have two sides.
This inherent duality is famously captured in the ancient Chinese symbol, the Yin Yang. It transcends all dogma and has endured within human consciousness for thousands of years.
In everyday life, we routinely "take sides". Deeply held values pin us down like tent pegs. Often we find ourselves offended, angry, dismayed and aghast at the side we oppose. But however much we try to push it away, reality pushes back with equal force.
The paradoxical truth is that opposing sides depend on, and define, each other. They quite literally create each other. Up exists purely in relationship to down, and vice versa. Good comes into being solely because of bad, and vice versa. Each side manifests its opposite into existence.
The horror of the other side is the ground upon which we stand… whilst shaking our fist at it.
The Yin Yang is a single symbol, unified by its two essential halves. Just like an electrical circuit is unified by its positive and negative currents. In the same way, the process of self-realisation gradually unifies duality within consciousness. A person is gradually relieved of their intrenched positions as consciousness uproots itself from one side of the fence, in order to see itself from an aerial viewpoint. As such, the person ceases to identify with any one side, because they know themself to be the whole.