Reality is obviously a combination of factors – intrinsically mutually exclusive factors like water being dammed up, creating a force, powers a lot of our lives – as the Maharal of Prague teaches, there is an intrinsic connection between the forces of hate and the forces of love – Ironically, one actually has tremendous impetus, powering the other! – You see, it is obvious that our universe is exclusively about people and people are exclusively about creating e-pluribus-unum, from many one – but the natural tendency of life is both constructive and destructive, both love and hate, for one side of us wishes for unity, but the ego in us desires supremacy – Ironically, the ego is not totally evil, for while on its own, it can be a damaging force, but when we put together our positive qualities and match it with our negative drive, as the Chassidic teaching, that an ox (or a tractor) is far more powerful than a human in cultivating the land – similarly, from the perspective of our ideals alone, we may not have enough energy, drive to implement