Paradox Quotes - Page 29

• The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Eye, Heart

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Teaching, Mind, Rooms

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.35, Vintage

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• Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Beloved, Hopeless

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• In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sweet, Heart, Love Life

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.172, Vintage

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stars, Animal, Essence

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Limits

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 12, 2011

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• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Thinking, Feelings

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• In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

  David Richo

  Hero, Mean, Loss

  David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.17, Paulist Press

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• The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

  Jules Henry

  Men, Self, Experience

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• ... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

  Susan Griffin

  Perception, Vision, World

  Susan Griffin (1998). “Bending Home: Selected & New Poems, 1967-1998”

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• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sarcasm, Misunderstood, Want

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1206, Ageless Reads

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• Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

  Steven James

  Jesus, Trying, Cain

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• Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

  M. Scott Peck

  Religious, Believe, Imagination

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• Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

  Dan Millman

  Trying, Three, Waste

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• When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

  Brennan Manning

  Hate, Believe, Angel

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Journey, Oneness, Becoming

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• It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

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  Ram Dass

  Rip, Butterfly, Done

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• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

  Bob Moorehead

  Life, Hate, Tired

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

  George Carlin

  Years

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