Sublime

Modernity conditions us to think in only a singular, linear layer based on an objective description of reality. In this context, contradictions and paradoxes are perceived as an impediment to sustaining linearity, progress, and coherence, and need to be eliminated. This severely limits our capacity to develop discernment and to hold space for a ran

It has to be emphasized, however, that as long as a paradox is treated as a problem, it can never be dissolved. On the contrary, the “problem” can do nothing but grow and proliferate in everincreasing confusion. For it is an essential feature of thought that once the mind accepts a problem, then it is appropriate for the brain to keep on working un

The difference between confusion and “don’t know” is that confusion can only see one

His topic, after much wringing of hands, was “Alternative Approaches to the Banach-Tarski Paradox in the Absence of the Axiom of Choice,”

Our doubts tend to be about whether we can get the satisfactions that we seek, not about the nature of these satisfactions.

I did not grasp his meaning. “From what side?” I asked. “Ah, true,” William acknowledged the problem. “It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and whether there is a whole.