paradox | Life-Built Poems

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FOLLOW THE GOD-THREAD (Shaping Dilemma)

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Here’s the most pretzel-brain-making question there ever was in the history of human thought: “Life is ___________” (fill in the blank). That’s the deceptively innocuous-looking problem that, given even just a little bit of space and time, can toss you smack-dab onto the back of the Chaos-Beast that takes you on a ride straight down the most convoluted and paradoxical rabbit hole a thinking being will ever encounter. Argh! I’ll tell you right now going in: That question actually has…

ALL OF US ARE FREEDOM’S SLAVES

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“Freedom’s slave.” This phrase is fascinating to me. The words evoke a sense of mayhem and magic, and of paradox and painful lessons. A world-traveling friend gave the words to me as a gift. (He knows I collect such things.) He told me he had seen a tattoo of that phrase two different times in his many years of travel. One of the tattoos was inked on the forearm of a fellow traveler, a scammer and nascent chaos-hound traveling through…

UN-SEEING

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Here’s an interesting concept: UN-SEEING. If you look at your habits of thought and what you expect to see when you look at a phenomena or situation, it’s quite likely that you will be able to see patterns of thinking that you just naturally fall into. They’re old familiar ways you always dance.