Simplify your life. Balance needs with wants and harmonize inner and outer well-being. — Steps Toward Inner Peace, Peace Pilgrim
“No man is an island,” so says John Donne. We all have many opportunities to deal with other persons. Often the Symmetry of Diplomacy is required. Especially in those contentious interactions. And often in our long term relationships.
Peace,
Jim
DIPLOMATIC
Definitions: (1) tactful and clever in dealing with people; (2) politic and adroit in conduct
Compatible Qualities: open-minded, perspicacious
Comment: The diplomat who sticks only to small talk gets no respect and gets nothing done. The diplomat who cares only for winning will not win. The diplomat who is fair is valued.
SYMMETRICAL
Definitions: (1) possessing beauty of form <arising from balanced proportions>; (2) showing similarity of arrangement on either side of a dividing line or plane; having correspondence of opposite parts in size, shape, and position; (3) able to comprehend the nature of reality <symmetrical thinking (often beyond logic and reasoning)>
Quotes:
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English Philosopher
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-born American Naturalist
Observation: The perfect proportion is known as the Golden Section: the square root of 5 plus 1 divided by 2. This ratio is 1 to 1.618. A is to B as B is to A & B. This is the ratio of most of nature’s most beautiful things: the human body, DNA, the spiral nautilus, et cetera.
Comment: Symmetry is beautiful in physical manifestation. Symmetry of the soul not only seen, it is also felt.
Symbol: Gemini (Zodiac)
