Everything runs in circles. Opposites complement each other. They’re close to each other. Your suffering is the source of your happiness. That’s the cruel beauty of life.
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This. Without the obstacles and the struggle there is no triumph.
Heraclitus brilliance was in vocalizing paradoxes that are true. We both step into the same river twice and we also don't. We both visit the same place again and yet we don't. We are both the same person that we were and at the same time we are not. Persistence and change coexist.