too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.