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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
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Quote #1183 - #ParadoxicallySpeaking
28 Apr, 2025
PARADOXICALLY SPEAKING
"There is a law of Reversed Effort. The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and the results of proficiency come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent Unknown Quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us."
Aldous Huxley
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being."
Madeleine L'Engle
So much positive and negative each day
minute to minute
day after day
the world is collapsing and expanding--
my world as well--
emotions run rampant in all directions,
sometimes all at the same time.
I do not call it a paradox, for
back in the days of book dictionaries
the definition of a paradox was "a statement or proposition
that seems self-contradictory but in reality
expresses a possible truth."
Seems self-contradictory?
Possible truth?
No. No.
Both contradictory.
Both true.
Contradictory co-existing realities.
They say "keep it simple" but
reality is complex.
Our subconscious and conscious levels of awareness
continue to interact
in a myriad of ways that make up who we are
and how we do things.
So perhaps we, ourselves--
each of us,
all of us--
are the most complex
contradictory co-existing reality
of all.
Shellen Lubin
April 28, 2025
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