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Living Within the Paradox
[Photo courtesy of alice popkorn]All of life is the co-existence of opposites. Can you know what up is without down? Can you know the truth without first experiencing the lies? ..and can you experience love without first experiencing it’s polar opposite, fear. This is why we are here, this is why the world is in the state it’s in. Can you make things right until you know what’s wrong with them?
This is a fundamental concept to ponder over in the universe of duality. We are quick to pass judgements on others for the ‘wrongs’ they do in their lives. But let’s be honest, who authors the book of right and wrong? It would be easy to point the finger over to religion for this answer but, religions comes and goes, just as all things in the physical realms. Do we follow the Bible or the Qur’an, the Baghavad Gita or the Tao Te Ching? What is right to one person, culture, religion or belief system is more often than not wrong to another. If you can’t find an opposing belief all you need is a little knowledge of history and location.
I find it rather interesting how we choose to limit our thinking by rejecting some aspects of life and making ‘certain’ only their opposites. When you start to accept that infinity is the ultimate possibility you can start to live within the paradox and start to understand some of the greater spritual truths that exist: the outer world is a reflection of the inner; the search for outer knowledge eventually reveals that it is ALL located inside; physical reality is but one reality created from non physical reality; all beings everywhere are connected in some way and duality or separation from each other is an illusion.
These are not easy truths to discover (or rather remember) because of that very paradox. If you live your life depending solely on your physical senses: sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch you miss out on the magic of the non-physical ones: intuition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, lucid dreaming and others I have yet to understand and experience. From the little of these I have experienced, the possibilities of perception are magnified immensely!
God is a process, all of life is a process, you are a process. To make a giant leap in that process is to start living within the paradox today. Start accepting all of life perfect as it is.. understanding that, everything has a purpose and a reason, everything! Do not judge what you consider ‘wrong’.. rather use it as a tool in understanding its polar opposite. Love in all it’s glory cannot be experienced without the murderers, rapists, liars, thieves, unfaithful, judger’s, haters, etc etc. You and I have been in that ever expansive list at one time or another. Think about it!
