Contridictions Make Sense

Note: This image is snapped from the video called "The Mountain" on Vimeo. Worth a look!

We need dark to see the light. It may seem like a contradiction but, in fact, dark and light are intimately related. We need the dark to see the stars. This paradox is like many others that I have discovered and used in my teaching over the years. I never provide the answers because there are many answers. Sometimes you have to turn it upside down and see the other side. The real answer is never obvious.

Check out the list below. Think about each statement. What is the deeper meaning? If you are so inclined, write out your answer or response to each one in your journal or notebook. Paint it; write a poem or a song; find something to photograph the captures the essence of it; personalize it; share it. 

Agree to disagree

Holding on or moving on

Give in order to gain

Strength is gentleness

Losing is winning

Getting lost in order to find

I've lost what I can never lose

Back off to go forward

Close your eyes to see

To see big see small

Above may still be below

Letting go is keeping

Not to be perfect is perfect

If you get lost, you can always be found

Stop searching to find

Sight is not seeing

Looking does not mean seeing

Peace says a lot

Magic is not magic

Inaction can result in movement 

Keeping up is bound to slow you down

By giving we receive

Stars cannot shine without darkness

Lose all in order to find all

Look back to see ahead

Getting there first does not mean you won

Great minds think alone

Quietness says a lot

You are confined only by the walls you build

Existing is not living
Falling up

Become in order to be

Painful can feel good

Blindness does not mean you cannot see

Spend in order to save

Letting go but holding on

The end may be the beginning

Enter the dark to find the light

Dying having never lived

Smart might be dumb

Hurrying can cause delay

Near could be far

Dreams can be reality

When you lose, don't lose the lesson

A friend walks in when others walk out