Yes you are right, how would we value the blessing of life for our loved ones. if we dont know, realize and witness death and some very tragic deaths. One of my nephew in a very young age died and since then i live in fear and gratitude to almighty for my own children.
Consciousness never dies, identity / physical bodies shall wither and dies.
Even planet or even stars, all of it will dies.
Yet a new stars and planet will born from the debris.. from death, a new creation is born.
The only thing that doesn't change is change.
Thus when one does not fear death any longer, what else thus he/she will fear?
Understand this to overcome and transmute the negative vibration of fear.
"Do not attach yourself to something that is impermanent"
-- Siddharta
Some times I feel whatever going to happen will happen to me or to humanity as a whole and nothing can change that or alter it. As if this is a movie am playing a part and i will have to accept what ever the plot or role or twist comes in. In Quran God has also revealed that to some nations or some specific person(s) he favored among all worlds,... then there are those "not favored" or "not so blessed with his mercy".. the concept you mentioned as opposite pairs.
Everyone and everything is equally blessed with the source / father / creator mercy.
A suggestion that a specific group or specific identity is preferred / superior above others comes from the "negative" or the "is not". As it's the essence of "Pride".
We can observe the following:
- The superiority of Aryan race as proposed by Nazi Germany
- The superiority of Japanese as proposed by Japanese empire.
- The racial white preference of colonial period.
- The preferential of "Christians" over the pagans / non jesus believers.
- The preferential of "Chosen People" over the goyims (other nations) as mentioned in the Tanakh.
- The preferential of "Muslims" over the "Kufr".
While Pride has it's opposite pair, Humility.
You are not inferior to Satan, Devil and whatever names one came up for the "negatives".
They are vibrating at 'lower frequency' and they will try to instill 'pride' as an entrance to lower your frequency.
Understand 'how they works' through your own discernment and they shall no power over you.
Having said that; you are not superior over them either.
"The servants of Ar-Rahman are those who carry themselves around in this world with humility and serenity."
-- Q 25:63
"I have three treasures; Hold onto them and treasure them: Compassion, Frugality and Humility"
-- Tao The Ching