Firmness and Flexibility, Masculine and Feminine harmonious relationship

Feminine is dark and mysterious, teaches us softness, sensitivity, yielding, surrender, flexibility, acceptance, kindness, humbleness and stillness. Masculine is light and direct, it teaches us firmness, strength, deliberation, power, courage, action and determination. We need an equal measure of both in a form of a dynamic, harmonious relationship of energies.

Don't lose your humbleness and flexibility when you learn strength, and don't lose your strength and determination when you learn sensitivity and surrender, for without softness and flexibility the strength becomes blind and destructive, while without strength and courage, softness and surrender turn into weakness and stagnation. Firmness without flexibility turns into stubbornness and courage without kindness turns into arrogance.

But the subtle, harmonious balance cannot be created by the self-absorbed, rational-emotional mind, for it is the mind that creates the separation of those qualities in the first place. It's only from the state of inner stillness and total presence in the moment that we can live in this harmony of opposite forces. Let them lead and follow hand in hand for they are one, not separate.