Heart of Paradox
“Know then, proud one, what a paradox you are to yourself.” We want happiness, love, and approbation, yet wherever we turn in human life, we find ourselves facing another example of our sad and hateful emptiness. We want truth, yet we cannot even grasp the truth of ourselves, for an enormous contradiction lies at the heart of our very being. And ye
... See moreJenna Silber Storey • Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books Book 65)
A paradox is the appearance of contradiction between two related components.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Turn it and turn it, for everything is in it.”1 As a pathway to the place of all possibility, hafokh bah calls us to acknowledge, seek out, and engage the multiple truths contained within any one verse, story, image, person, experience, or idea.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
We die to the world every time we breathe out, and every time we breathe in, every time our breath returns to us of its own accord, we are reborn, and the world rises up into being again. And our heart is always breaking, and the gate is always clanging shut. It is always the last minute. We are always desperate, not just at Neilah, the final momen
... See moreAlan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Ratzon is the marrow, the juicy life source that keeps us going.