Cloudscape

Spirituality alone tends towards self-satisfaction yet also towards self-love, science alone tends towards self-criticism yet also self-improvement; thus, we need both so that we can both love ourselves as we are and improve ourselves. In fact, we need to love ourselves to better improve ourselves, and also improve ourselves to better love ourselves. Love gives us strength to improve, improvement gives us the strength to love; both should be possible without the other, but they can nonetheless increase each other.

We are once more faced with one of the many versions of balance between yin and yang, spirituality being yin and science yang. These terms are, however, open to interpretation: a spiritual attitude can be a mere sense of connectedness, without any actual theory behind it, while a scientific attitude can be a mere openness.