The Varieties of Experience

We have a limited set of choices for how we will experience:

- Passive vs Active - We can choose to be passive and watch things happen, or we can be active and cause things to happen.  We cannot be totally passive.  Just being present has some effect on what happens around us.

- Consuming vs Producing - We can choose to consume things, information,

- Receiving vs Giving - We give and we receive.  We are served and we are of service.

These are all essentially the same choice.  They are the balance of being.  We breath in and we breath out.  We consume in order to produce.  We serve in return for being served.

We seek balance in all respects.  An imbalance upsets the equation and interferes with the flow of energy.  If one is giving but never receiving, there is imbalance.  If one is receiving but never giving, there is imbalance.

It is easy to be passive, consuming, and receiving.  They are the natural flow of things.  We achieve balance when we act, when we create, when we give, and when we are of service.

The tide of life moves in and out.  The cycle of life is continuous.

We complete the cycle when we use the energy which sustains us to be productive, creative, and giving.