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Daily Question, December 11

What changes when I embrace the inevitable paradoxes in life?

  • reality

    There are no paradoxes, dualities, etc., to be embraced. Viva la evolucion. Thanx for all you do; have a great eve’ 🙂 reality

  • Elaine

    Equanimity.

  • Malag

    Less likely to play God by struggling against what is.

  • Ose

    All becomes still, peaceful. The inner gesture of embracing the paradoxes extends peace inside and to all around. It creates a quality of arriving in the moment. Thank you for this question. ?

  • Drew Blanton

    If anything changes, I don’t feel it.

  • Bob V
    I get to become 're-centered'. For me, paradoxes are simple judgments that reflect my own, highly-biased point of view. When I realize it, I 'calm down' since it becomes apparent (again) that I control nothing, that the universe/Divine has other plans for me, and that there's a teaching somewhere in the paradox. Today, when I needed it most, the power went out for me. Perhaps it's God simply saying to me 'slow down, you move too fast, you've got to make the morning last....' It took me a while t...

    I get to become ‘re-centered’. For me, paradoxes are simple judgments that reflect my own, highly-biased point of view. When I realize it, I ‘calm down’ since it becomes apparent (again) that I control nothing, that the universe/Divine has other plans for me, and that there’s a teaching somewhere in the paradox. Today, when I needed it most, the power went out for me. Perhaps it’s God simply saying to me ‘slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last….’ It took me a while to ‘get the message’. And when I did, the day became ‘okay’.

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    • Debra

      ‘Slow down you move too fast. Got to make the morning last. Kicking down the cobblestone. Looking for fun and feeling groovy.’ Wonderful lyrics by singer/songwriter, Paul Simon. May not be verbatim but close. (I can hear the music resounding in my head like yesterday.)

      • Bob V

        it’s the 59th Street Bridge Song, and it was by Simon and Garfunkle.

  • Antoinette

    Embrace change is a wonderful mantra because it congers up joyfulness and an open heart full of compassion. Thank you !

  • GCharlotte

    Life that leaves a mystery and life that reveals the mystery becomes life of the parodox.

  • Hot Sauce
    It can actually keep me from demonizing anybody, I think. A tendency I sometimes have is to see one view as right and one group or person as right and the other as wrong and unworthy of kindness. There are paradoxes, though. We have a duty to fight against injustice for the sake of those who are impacted by it. At the same time, I've learned that, at least for me, it is also helpful to do this with love and respect even for the wrongdoers, so that I don't demonize anybody. Even so, it's importan...

    It can actually keep me from demonizing anybody, I think. A tendency I sometimes have is to see one view as right and one group or person as right and the other as wrong and unworthy of kindness. There are paradoxes, though. We have a duty to fight against injustice for the sake of those who are impacted by it. At the same time, I’ve learned that, at least for me, it is also helpful to do this with love and respect even for the wrongdoers, so that I don’t demonize anybody. Even so, it’s important not to force the wronged to be kind to oppressors, having empathy for why they would feel deep hurt at the injustice and how dehumanizing the perpetrator can actually feel empowering at times. I like the idea of not being “for” or “against” anybody but holding charity and love toward everybody (of course, though, I’m not “against” anyone who disagrees with that sentiment 🙂 ).

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  • Mica

    Problems fade!

    How I embrace paradoxes and problems and other worries:
    I’ll be a broken record and re-share:
    I’m loving the workbook my wise son recommended:
    Coming to Wholeness: How to Awaken and Live with Ease (The Wholeness Work Book 1)
    by Connirae Andreas
    It gives me a way to move from negative mental thoughts to the sensations in the body and how to work toward releasing them.

    • now you got me…. I finally purchased for kindle. not feeling in need of any more spiritual literature, you just made me curious ?

      • Mica

        I think you only need to read Section I to get over 90% of the benefit – a lot of the rest seems to be examples. Or, I’ll say – hopefully you won’t feel like your purchase was wasted. Hugs

  • Ann

    When my attitude is similar to one I’d have simply ‘wiping up the spilled milk’ without ‘going down the rabbit hole’ of triggered emotional ‘stories’, life feels much more peace-filled, friendly and easy.

  • Debra

    Everything. The ‘walls of resistance’ come falling down and I am at peace with whatever challenges or delights spirit has fashioned for me.

  • Present Moment

    I experience a sense of awe, a very calming “not knowing” leading to gratitude for the complexity of life.

  • I remember Buddhist teachers speaking about a (dynamic) state of complete openness towards all aspects of life. so to encourage me I visualize myself standing in the wind (of life) with arms totally open…ready to be torn down or elevated…ready to say YES to whatever arises….

  • Tom Denham

    Not that my experience with embracing the inevitable paradoxes in life is extensive, but I think I start to become a human being when I embrace them.

  • Jackie

    I can hold joy and sorrow at the same time. My black and white thinking is reduced. I become more calm, and am able to extend more kindness to the world.

  • Mark Piper

    If I pay attention, rather than dismiss the paradox presented (due to my unwillingness to change a mindset or thought about how things are/ought to be) my mindset changes. Less set, sure, and battle ready because I know where the lines are that separate good and bad, this or that, black and white, and more open and inquisitive.

  • Anneclaire

    The inevitable paradoxes can only be embraced by my being still and going deeper within in prayer and in trust in the Lord, especially when those paradoxes require important decisions on my part.

  • Michele

    Attitude – by mentally forcing yourself to go from negative to positive. Positive thinking!

  • Kevin

    I change! Meaning that my emotions and reactions that will fluctuate to the variables of life need not swing as fiercely from one pole to another if I embrace, rather than resist, this reality.

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