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Due to the limitation of concepts, deeper understanding comes from holding multiple perspectives simultaneously, recognizing their utility and their limitations, and also being willing to let all of them go. It’s about developing a fluid way of seeing that can shift between unity and multiplicity, between being and non-being, dwelling on neither.
Roy Klein • Basic Introduction to Nondualism
coincidentia positorum : (an alchemical term) the union of opposites; you can’t understand anything unless you simultaneously grok what it is and what it isn’t. By a mere shift in perspective, a thing’s opposite comes into focus, and the opposites melt into a new whole. This has many symbolic expressions: the hermaphrodite, soul/luna,
... See morelife exists in the contradictions. god flourishes in the contradictions. everything is inherently dual natured which is what makes it beautiful
in a quick note, awe feels foundational to my life. as i believe god is love and nature, creation, and connection are expressions of this pure love, awe feels like my most sincere expression of gratitude
solo travel as justified peter pan syndrome - am i doing nothing but convincing myself i am by traveling?
To let go, when you know you have to is like choosing both grief and hope. Hope that you have control over your life, hope that there is something that is more in alignment for you out there. But you are giving up the possibility of the known joy. There must have been something you are letting go of that is meaningful and beautiful. Letting go, for
... See more“My experience of letting go feels very much like being a trapeze artist. Much like the moment when the breath is completely exhaled, the trapeze artist has a moment when they are suspended in mid-air. My understanding is that they have to let go of one bar and wait in mid-air for the next swinging bar to reach them. If they hold on to the current
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