Paradox
In love, in art, in life, in being.
Paradox
In love, in art, in life, in being.
A paradox is the appearance of contradiction between two related components.
Carl Jung wrote, “Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.”
Knowing who you are is grounding; it gives you a sense of trajectory. But when we assign words and meanings to what we know we like and value and want, we create attachments. We then strive to keep things within the parameters of which we’ve already accepted. Out of that, we create failure. We create suffering over self. We begin to believe that a
... See moreGuilt is also a cheap substitute for paradox. The energy consumed by guilt would be far better invested in the courageous act of looking at two sets of truths that have collided in our personality. Guilt is also arrogant because it means we have taken sides in an issue and are sure that we are right. While this one-sidedness may be part of the
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