Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, to… - Joseph Campbell

Centuries of husbandry, decades of diligent culling, the work of numerous hearts and hands, have gone into the hackling, sorting, and spinning of this tightly twisted yarn. Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

old Roman: “The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.