How do you 'resolve' extreme dualities? How do you integrate polar opposites?

ivankiss
By ivankiss in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God,
Let's say you notice a deep inner conflict between two seemingly opposite perspectives. Paradigms or realities, even. How do you go about integrating both sides of the coin - so to speak - without ending up excluding or denying one side and picking one over the other? I thought simply noticing and taking no action - not leaning towards one or the other side - was the answer. But I'm not so sure about that anymore.  An example of this would be; On one side you want to pursue money, fame and sex and on the other you want to retrieve into a cave and meditate 24/7.  How does the middle way look like in this situation for you?  What do you do? How do you act?  
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