What Is Non-Duality?

We’ve Been Trained to See in Opposites

Right or wrong. Good or bad. Us versus them. Sacred or secular.

We live in a world of either/or thinking. It’s how we are taught to make sense of things—to categorize, to label, to decide. And while this kind of binary thinking is useful for simple problem-solving, it becomes a limitation when we try to engage with the deeper realities of life, spirituality, and God.

This is where non-duality comes in.

Reality Is One, but We See It as Two

Richard Rohr describes non-dual perception as the ability to hold the unity beneath apparent divisions. Instead of choosing between opposites, we begin to see how they are connected—how they arise from the same source.

St. Francis embodied this understanding, refusing to divide life into sacred and secular. He saw divine presence in all things, recognizing that everything is already part of the whole.

What Does It Mean to See Non-Dually?

Non-duality doesn’t mean ignoring distinctions. It doesn’t mean pretending that suffering isn’t real or that injustice doesn’t matter. Instead, it means seeing the deeper unity beneath all things—the unbreakable connection between light and dark, loss and love, pain and grace.

It means recognizing that life isn’t just one thing or the other. It’s both/and.

It’s an invitation to stop dividing, to stop clinging to sides, and to start living in the wholeness that has been here all along.

Are you ready to see beyond either/or?