Loving and Understanding Paradoxes

"When you live an intentional life and make your own decisions, you come to see the paradox of your personal sovereignty. To follow blindly your own desires will create a prison of constant cravings and longing, from which you cannot escape. To refuse your desires creates another kind of prison, one in which you feel ashamed, guilty, resentful, or even psychologically dead. To engage in your desires, with the recognition that they will teach you about your limitations, your vulnerability, and your conflicts, as well as your strengths, will lead to the discovery of your own nature, of who you are." ~Polly Young-Eisendrath from Women and Desire 

"Learning to be guided but not driven by our desires requires that we learn to hold the tension between blinding following impulses & denying the well-spring of wisdom in soul desires. If we can "engage" desire, we will learn who & what we are." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

 Life is full of paradoxes....so many things that are seemingly in conflict or in opposition or tangential, but are actually holding the space for all of us to live and let live, to give and receive love.

It is the paradox that holds us in this space.....much like a magnetic field....where there is an invisible force that holds things in place despite the opposites / paradoxes....to create the lovely patterns....and that is what makes this life of ours so beautiful, isn't it? So then, let us learn to love and understand the paradoxes of life a little more everyday.....for that I feel is the way to be, live and let live, love and be loved.