Embracing Paradox
Category:Connections,Exploration,Growth,Learning,Opportunity,Paradox
We live in a world
Of either/or,
Not both/and.
This is a world
Where reason rules
And does not tolerate
Exceptions to the rules.
But that’s not the world
We really live in.
We’ll never see
The full richness of our world
And we’ll learn a lot less
If we choose not to see
Its complexity and contradiction
And its endless mystery
Hiding beneath the surface.
Paradox can help us to learn
As long as we welcome it
And explore it,
Grateful for its ability
To challenge our deeply held beliefs
And tightly enforced rules.
2 Comments
Paul Walden
March 13, 2022at 11:31 pmSpot on, John! If you haven’t already, check out Jeremy Trent’s The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning. Think you’d enjoy them. Brilliant books.
Michael P. Gusek
March 7, 2022at 2:47 pmWay to go creating a post that defies classification while delivering a message communicating the problems of overly relying on distinctions in reality to explain said reality.