Paradoxes of Relationship & Love.

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May 11

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
-Mary Oliver

Episode 45.

Paradox- Round2- this time, some paradoxes of the heart.

A paradox arises when two things seem contradictory, inconsistent- if you hold this, you cannot hold this…but really, we can live with the fact that things are both true and not true- that they are relatively true.

The above Mary Oliver poem- Love, Hold, Release… these things seem to be in contention with one another… how do we love with bonded attachment, and at the same time be ok with letting it go?
Paradox…

What about coincidence vs. synchronicity? Actually, we misconstrue the word coincidence when we take it to mean something that happens accidentally or randomly.

In mathematical terms, coincide means 2 angles that fit together perfectly. So, coinciding, or by coincidence means something is perfectly fit, on the same plane, right timing… which is, by definition, synchronicity…aligned.

Here are some more paradoxes of the heart that I formulated as human dances, holding 2 planes of reality simultaneously, and in synchronicity.

Paradoxes of LOVE are akin to the paradoxes of being human.

~The courage to risk our heart and the insecurity to protect our heart.

~The innate desire to persevere in relationship and the impulse to sabotage relationship.

~The protective armor we wear to guard our hearts and the stripping down naked to bare our souls.

~Love is simple, and is so complex.

~The narrative that I’m not good enough to be lovable and the sense that my heart is worthy of something so grand that I cannot settle for the failings of another human.

~ “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. One does not exist without the other.” -Esther Perel

~The familiar landscape of connection and the unknown realm of another’s heart.

~Love is innate, yet widely misunderstood and complicated.

~The beginning is always ripe with possibility, and holds the prospect of completion, or ending.

Love, Jessica