Grief

"Grief brings us closest to life's great paradoxes; to live in order to be able to die; to be helpless and therefore be guided; to surrender to the unknown so as to know."  Inayat Khan

Paradox

"One of the great paradoxes of being is that each of us is born complete and yet we need contact with life in order to be whole. This, then, is the purpose of the stranger: to enliven what is dormant within us."  Mark Nepo

Meaning

"The ability to seek and find meaning in life is based more than anything on the capacity to hold paradox and maintain unblushing cognitive dissonance.   The objective world and the subjective world lie one atop the other.   So truth may be lass a matter of either/or than both/and."  Rachel Naomi Remen

Spirituality

"I am not interested in a spirituality that cannot encompass my humanness.   Beneath the small daily trials are harder paradoxes, things the mind cannot reconcile but the heart must hold if we are to live fully."  Oriah

Problem Solving

"It's typical of the soul's ways that a solution to a serious problem takes the form of a paradox.   The difficult truth to learn is that true change takes place in the imagination, and knowing this has everything to do with developing a good, intimate relationship to your own soul and to the soul of others."   Thomas Moore

Affirmations

"Affirmations are like screaming that you're ok in order to overcome this whisper that you're not.  None of us is okay and all of us are fine.   It's not just one way.  We are walking, talking paradoxes."  Pema Chondron