both are true
“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Reconciling Opposites Jul 02
a beautiful doc with compilations from Lorenzo Servitije, the founder of Grupo Bimbo (and one of the richest men in Mexico) shared by a newsletter reader in response to the “both are true” issue.
both are true: I hold a lot of conflicting beliefs, and have become happier the longer I’ve sat with them and realized that internal conflicts are a fact of life.
Reconciling modern science with ancient esoteric worldviews by holding subjective experience and objective facts without either-or thinking
TRANSCRIPT
I have what modern science tells me, and I have my experience, which is also informed much more by – it's more supported by the ancient worldview. and I hold these two things side by side and I leave them to have their own domains of authority in my life, but I allow them to communicate with each other.
Now people call this cognitive dissonance.
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