The Power of the Paradox

This world is one of paradox. It is a world in which two dualistic and seemingly opposing viewpoints often battle it out for the title of being RIGHT. (Insert heroic trumpet fanfare here!)

In fact, being right is the one thing that people(’s egos) will sacrifice most anything for, including their own happiness, health, wealth, and even their very lives. Never underestimate the human ego’s desire to be right!!

The irony is that from a higher perspective, from the level of non-dualistic consciousness, it becomes clear that NEITHER are right AND BOTH are right! Say what!? How can this be??

It’s not this OR that, but this AND that.

Perhaps you’ve seen two people who are arguing about something, only to realize that they’re both right. The thing is that they’re both looking at the same thing, but simply seeing it from different perspectives.

When you can stand in the center and realize how both seemingly opposing viewpoints are actually both valid, are really the same truth viewed from different perspectives, then you can say you are centered in your being.

The most natural way to get to that integrated space is to let the mind be quiet. Paradox can be conceptualized in the mind, but there’s truly nothing to understand. Simply be still and know. The paradoxes will be revealed to you.

It seems that reality is centered right between the paradoxes. Life finally “clicks” when you sit between the paradoxes.

A few quick examples…

Creation and Evolution

Creation says that it was all created instantly while evolution says that everything’s evolving over time. Which one is right? BOTH. It WAS all created now, but it’s “evolving” according to our collective and individual conscious and unconscious direction through “time”, much like shifting your awareness from one part of a painting to another. Evolution is nothing more than the unfoldment of Creation.

The Earth is the Center of the Universe and It’s Not

All points in space are the center of the universe, for space extends infinitely far from every point in space. You are the center of the universe, she is the center of the universe, I am the center of the universe. We are all the center of an infinite universe, and we are not in the center for the really is no reality to “space” and thus everything is literally right here.

Expressing Your Individuality is Expressing the Oneness

Like a puzzle piece that quits trying to force itself to be something other than it is, when you finally freely be yourself, you naturally and automatically fit into the puzzle called Life. It is by expressing your individuality that you honor the One puzzle of life.

Every Part of the Infinite is All of Infinity Itself

Every person, every molecule, every planet, every particle, no matter how large or small. That piece is the entire universe, the ENTIRE UNIVERSE itself. This isn’t just some math trick talking about infinity. It’s the literal truth. The entire universe is in this grain of sand, and in that grain of sand, and in the entire desert itself. This whole concept of separation, time, space… all illusion. When you see the All in the One, when you realize the true nature of, not only yourself, but of all “others,” what a profound shift in consciousness that is.

There is nowhere to go, no one to evolve into, no one to become. You already are the all. It is all folded “inside you,” so to speak. Again, your manifestations don’t come from “out there,” and neither do your emotions. They all come from within. You are the Source. You are the entirety of infinity itself. You MUST be the change you wish to see in the world for you ARE the world. There is no reality outside you. Trying to change the world is trying to change the illusion. It’s a lot like going up to a mirror and trying to force the face you see into the smile. It’ll never work and it’s pretty silly. If you want the reflection to change, YOU must change and then the reflection you see will automatically change as well. It has no choice. The only reality is within.

It is When You No Longer Need Something That it Finally Manifests

Needing something is vibrationally creating the experiential reality that you don’t have something and so that’s what you experience. Needing something is a resistance to the experience of having it. When you experience having something (be it in “reality” or in your imagination… which are 100% the exact same thing anyways) and then you let go of the idea that you don’t have it (needing/wanting it), then you are surrendered to allowing the flow to take you “towards” (as if there was a direction) the physical experience of that which you have already manifested. Letting go of needing something is actually what allows it to enter your experience in the first place.

Getting Out of the Logical Mind

There’s so many other paradoxes we can get into, such as if religion or science is correct and so on, but the main thing to realize is that any time you feel separated within while trying to figure out which opposing viewpoint is correct, it’s a sign that you’re stuck in your head. The mind is dualistic. Right or wrong. This or that. Good or bad. Black or white.

By coming back into the stillness, the silence, the heart, the intuitive knowingness, your true nature, your true Self, your Buddha Nature, your Christ Self, your Krishna Spirit… whatever you want to call it, by coming back into this space, the solutions automatically arise on their own.