There are two kinds of thinkers. One believes spiritual practice must be given the highest priority. The other believes spirituality comes later, after material life is stabilized or after responsibilities are fulfilled.

One longs for the stillness of the deep, convinced the surface is too chaotic for peace.

The other lives entirely on the surface, carried by the tides of material life, focused on stability and responsibility, unaware of the vastness beneath. For them, spirituality is postponed, something to be considered only after commitments and responsibilities are complete.

But there is a third kind.

They do not divide life into spiritual and material. They integrate spirituality into daily living because they understand the rightful place of both. For them, spirituality is not separate from life. It flows through work, relationships, and responsibility.

They find wisdom in all things and events. They understand chaos as well as peace. They understand duality not as a problem to escape, but as the structure through which life teaches.

They realize they are the water itself. They do not divide the ocean into surface and depth. They bring the silence of the deep into the crashing waves of the shore. For them, spirituality is not diving away from life. It is remaining fluid while navigating work, relationships, and responsibility.

They find the ocean’s essence in both storm and calm. They understand duality not as a conflict between the wave and the deep, but as the total movement of life.

They also honor those who cling to the shore or those who hide in the deep, understanding why those paths exist. With time, every wave settles, every depth rises, and all water returns to the same source.

No matter whether someone lives on the surface of life, retreats into depth, or integrates both, the underlying essence is the same. Paths differ. Timing differs. Expression differs. But the origin and the final resting truth do not.

This is not about spiritual superiority or hierarchy. It is about the inevitability of unity.

Waves settle. Depths rise. Forms dissolve. What remains is what was always there.