You already know the way things are —
so this DoubleQuote will show you the familiar, hopefully with a new slant —
— the abstract intuition that sees these two images taken together as a binary, a pairing of extremes — something the brain finds very reassuring —
— and a metaphor for duality and as such, non-dual.
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The lower of the two photographs, with the ladies walking along the railway tracks with no train in sight, is taken from an article on the oncoming monsoon that might interest you:
Waiting for the Monsoon, Discovering a Brain Tumor Instead
A brain tumor — what kind of strong weather in mind and heart is that? We live in an alien, often beautiful, sometimes unbearably human world.