Happiness is the happy aspect of sadness; sadness is the sad aspect of happiness.

Happiness is the happy aspect of sadness;
sadness is the sad aspect of happiness;

Form is the form aspect of emptiness;
emptiness is the empty aspect of form;

A dream is the dreaming aspect of being awake;
being awake is the awake aspect of dreaming;

The more good we perceive in a thing,
the more its shadow will feel comfortable revealing itself;
The more we become conscious of shadow as shadow,
the more it is able to shapeshift into the good;

The more surprised we are by death, the more surprised we can be that we are alive;
the more surprised we are at being alive, the more we can accept the reality of death

Photo: scorched Ponderosa Pine cone in the Fern Lake Burn; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 14, 2012.  These pairs of opposites are not meant to be treated as static logical equivalents.  Instead, they reveal their oneness in the act of MOVING from one to the next.