The Tension of Opposites & the Power of Love

....through all our lives we are faced with the task of reconciling opposites which, in logical thought, cannot be reconciled...How can one reconcile the demands of freedom and discipline in education?  Countless mothers and teachers, in fact, do it, but no one can write down a solution.  They do it by brining into the situation a force that belongs to a higher level where opposites are transcended--the power of love...Divergent problems, as it were, force us to strain ourselves to a level above ourselves; they demand, and thus provoke the supply of, forces from a higher level, thus bringing love, beauty, goodness and truth into our lives.  It is only with the help of these higher forces that the opposites can be reconciled in the living situation.

--E.F. Schumacher