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What does it mean?
A single thought can transform reality, merging opposites into one truth that creates the scene.
In plain terms
One idea can turn light to dark and create a unified truth.
What can you take from it?
Recognize the power of perspective to reshape experience.

Where it applies

  • creative writing
  • mindfulness practice

Putting it to work

  • mindful reframing
  • creative visualization

Questions to consider

  • How does a single perspective alter our world?
  • When does perception become delusion?

Another view

Some transformations are limited by physical constraints.

More from Margaret Fuller

  1. There are to whom each symbol is a mask; The life of love is a mysterious task; They want no answer, for they would not ask.

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  2. You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.

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  3. And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.

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