87. Understanding Duality: 7 Ways to Embrace Your Darkness & Light
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that values self-improvement, we can easily get caught up in the idea that we should strive to eliminate all of our negative traits. However, Kabbalah teaches that the duality of our good and bad characteristics is necessary. For without these two forces, we wouldn’t have the power to choose between the two. Our consciousness awakens one or the other, and the more positive actions we do, the more goodness we create in the world. Tune in as Monica and Michael discuss the balance of darkness and Light in our lives.
“The purpose of our lives is to go into the dark places and find the sparks of Light and elevate them. That is what fuels our blessings, growth, and happiness.” – Michael Berg
Further Readings:
Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno & Piercarlo Valdesolo
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| 0:00.0 | You should be competitive with yourself. |
| 0:11.0 | You know, internalize all of that. |
| 0:13.0 | And you should compare yourself with who you are today and who you have yet to become. |
| 0:18.0 | So take all of those things that seem like negative characteristics and |
| 0:21.8 | actually turn it inward and use it for something that can be really powerful and motivating. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to spiritually hungry episode 87. Welcome. I i'm to start off with a Cherokee fable i love |
| 0:43.8 | jerky fables i really like this one there's a fight going on inside each one of us it's a terrible |
| 0:49.7 | fight between two wolves one wolf is evil he is He is anger, rage, envy, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, |
| 0:57.8 | guilt, resentment, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. That's a big wolf. |
| 1:05.6 | The second wolf is good. He is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, truth, compassion, |
| 1:16.2 | and faith. So which- That's another very big wolf. So which wolf will win? |
| 1:22.4 | I've heard this one before, so it's not fair for me to answer. It's the one you feed. So this is so |
| 1:27.3 | fitting for today's topic, darkness not fair for me to answer. It's the one you feed. So this is so fitting for today's |
| 1:28.3 | topic, darkness and light, good and evil. Everyone has both good and bad within them. |
| 1:35.9 | And I think often people go through life like preferring to assign, you know, that person's a good |
| 1:42.2 | person, that person's a negative person. I'm a good person |
| 1:44.3 | most of them. That's true too. But this do I wonder, right, is there anybody in the world who |
| 1:50.2 | really ever thinks I'm not a good person? Yeah, no, there are a lot of people who are very |
| 1:54.6 | self-punishing and have a lot of self-hatred. But when they compare it to the people they see |
| 1:59.9 | or view as negative, they see themselves |
| 2:01.7 | as being much better, usually. So this duality is a necessary part of our lives. If it weren't |
| 2:09.5 | for duality, we wouldn't have the power to choose. And choosing to see the good in those around us |
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