We are strong, difficult creatures who long for both freedom and belonging at the same time, and often run a mile when the real thing appears. That is the frontier on which we dwell.*
David Whyte

Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions; a conservative tendency … and an expansive tendency … We need both of these programmes.^^
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Here they are again,
The two inclinations necessary for life:
Freedom and belonging,
Exploration and self-preservation,
Playfulness and seriousness,
Dynamic and static,
Imagination and reality,
Infinite and finite,
Future and past,
Special and ordinary –
Such a life – if we could make it work –
Would be worth everything.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Mihaly Csikszenntmihalyi’s Creativity.