History

A famous Chinese diagram reflects the theory of yin and yang, which states that all things in the universe have two attributes: “yin” and “yang” (Heaven and Earth, white and black, Sun and Moon, day and night, heat and cold, female and male, up and down, left and right, movement and stillness, softness and hardness), and they depend on each other, limit each other and have a relationship of mutual transformation.

Yin-Yang

Place: China

Time: 3rd millennium BC

Material: stone

For reflection

What soft and hard aspects of your life can be reconciled?

Where do you tend to be too categorical with “black and white” thinking?

What can be found new in the familiar and what is familiar in the new?

Yin-Yang

Place: China

Time: 3rd millennium BC

Material: stone

History

A famous Chinese diagram reflects the theory of yin and yang, which states that all things in the universe have two attributes: “yin” and “yang” (Heaven and Earth, white and black, Sun and Moon, day and night, heat and cold, female and male, up and down, left and right, movement and stillness, softness and hardness), and they depend on each other, limit each other and have a relationship of mutual transformation.

For reflection

What soft and hard aspects of your life can be reconciled?

Where do you tend to be too categorical with “black and white” thinking?

What can be found new in the familiar and what is familiar in the new?

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