Post 161 explored the merits of subtraction and expansion. The dynamic tension between these two ways of creating satisfaction in life brought to mind the word paradox. While trying to decide whether or not it really was a paradox, the following quote jumped out at me:
“Perhaps the greatest paradox in the human psyche is our longing for union, for peace, for solutions, though experience has taught us that it is our conflicts and our failures which are in fact our points of growth.”*
In Post 161, I would say the paradox is that both subtracting and expanding, seeming opposites, give positive results.
In the above definition, the paradox is that though we long for the “good” stuff, thinking it will make us grow and transform, it is really the “bad” stuff that transforms us.
Do you agree there is something mysterious about paradox that deserves exploration?
Do you have a different definition of paradox?
Do you have an example of a paradox?
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Thanks for exploring the mystery of paradox with me.
Nicky Mendenhall
*Quote found in Into The Heart of the Feminine by Massimilla Harris, Ph.D. and Bud Harris, Ph.D. attributed to Irene Claremont de Castillejo.
Photo: Several or you mentioned you couldn’t see a cat in the last picture. Peregrine is a trauma survivor which is why he was hiding under the red plastic curtain in his safe house.