Our life can be our wings or our anchor. We decide!
Most people make that decision subconsciously because make it we must and we do. It determines everything else.
To make that decision consciously is not an easy task, solely because we need to make it daily, otherwise the default program easily takes over; that life is a struggle, a prison, a limitation that defines you.
To choose and keep our wings we'll need to constantly make difficult decisions, even in everyday little things, but which also help us stay on course; our own course, our internal compass.
Then symbols change meaning.
The anchors are our principles, which we live by. Beliefs become temporary opinions that we test out, challenge and research, striving for truth, which doesn't need belief.
The wings are our peace of mind, our light-heartedness (versus faint-hearted), our self-integrity and courage to move when change is needed; to adjust our sails to meet our morality.
Only when we decide consciously can we change the default programs, especially the "either/or" oppositional duality.