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Maintaining balance is essential to life. Too much
of a good thing can poison life. Not even the best part
of life is fulfilling if it is all there is to life. Not
even the best attitude is universally appropriate. No one
world-view is always "best". Each value and good is such
only in limited contexts, not in all contexts.
Objectivity is not always appropriate. The scientific
approach does not make sense in intimate personal
relationships. The analytic approach does not promote
union and mutuality between friends. Concern for
efficiency is hardly helpful in promoting the growth of
friendship.
There are many values which we tend to absolutize, as
if they were always appropriate. When we absolutize
values we lose balance and fall down in those situations
in which we lack balance because of absolutizing our
values.
We would be baffled by a dancer preoccupied with
knowing which was the right foot to stand on all the time.
A musician seeking to find the right note to be held
forever would leave us equally perplexed. A dietitian who
sought to identify the "best" food to be eaten to the
exclusion of others would not be promoting life. We could
not understand or identify with a painter who chose one
shade of one color for exclusive use in all painting, no
matter how pretty that one color was. The politician who
is concerned about only one issue does not get very many
votes. A doctor cannot promote life by using one drug to
treat all patients because of a conviction it is the best
drug.
We lose our sense of balance in many situations,
however: We may think that there is only one right way to
see reality---because there is only one really-real. We
may persecute those who answer questions differently than
we do---because we believe there can be only one right
answer to those questions. Those who seek truth in a
different way than we do may become the victims of our
scorn---because we know the only right way to seek truth.
We may be persecuted for having more than one very
intimate friend---because most people believe that we
should have only one very intimate friend at a time.
Our lives would all be richer if we helped each other
maintain balance in all ways of living. Why don't we?
Why not start?
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