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Matterhorn mit Riffelsee
Ich komme, ich weiß nicht woher,
Ich bin, ich weiß nicht wer,
Ich sterb, ich weiß nicht wann,
Ich geh, ich weiß nicht wohin,
Mich wundert's, dass ich fröhlich bin.
Mittelalterlicher Sinnspruch
Im Allgemeinen schwingt Relativismus auf einem Bewusstseinswert von 185, der erkenntnistheoretische Relativismus 190 – nach der Skala des Bewusstseins, die von dem US-amerikanischen Psychiater Dr. David R. Hawkins entwickelt wurde.
Vertreter des Relativismus argumentieren beispielsweise mit der verallgemeinernden Aussage
Alles ist relativ!
Ein übliches Argument zur Entkräftung relativistischer Standpunkte ist deren intrinsische Widersprüchlichkeit.
Die relativistische Behauptung Alles ist relativ! beinhaltet folgendes Paradox:
- Wird sie als relative Aussage verstanden, so schließt sie Absolutheit nicht aus und widerspricht sich damit selbst.
- Wird sie hingegen als absolute Aussage verstanden, liefert sie als solche das sie widerlegende Beispiel einer absoluten Behauptung und den Nachweis, dass eben nicht alle wahrheitshaltigen Aussagen relativ sind.
Dem moralischen Relativismus, welcher die Wahrheit des Absoluten und spirituelle Prinzipien verneint, schreibt Dr. Hawkins den einsetzenden Niedergang der westlichen Gesellschaft und der Welt im Allgemeinen zu. Er erklärte, dass das antike Rom nicht durch äußere Machthaber besiegt wurde, sondern infolge der Dekadenz im Inneren untergegangen ist.
Relativism denies the reality of the Absolute as it believes that all supposed truth is only social, linguistically constructed opinion (perception / definition / 'just rhetoric'). Therefore, relativism sees only perception and is blind to essence as well as context. Paradoxically, relativism considers its own premises to be absolute (as well as superior and elite). If all statements are hypothetically only semantic constructs then obviously that very statement itself has no inherent reality and is also just a value-laden linguistic construct. Thus, by it's own criteria, relativism is fallacious. David R. Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 136, 2008
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Die fünfte Dimension ist kleiner als ein Atomkern.
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Sidney Coleman, der Vorsitzende der Fakultät für Physik in Harvard und Alan Guth, Physiker am Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) und einer der führenden Experten auf dem Forschungsgebiet zur Entstehung des Universums, erklärten, dass heute ein Großteil der Physiker darin übereinstimme, dass es eine fünfte Dimension gebe. Es sei allerdings bis zum heutigen Tag niemand imstande, ihre Beschaffenheit zu definieren. Beide vertreten die Ansicht, dass hierbei ein Paradoxon vorliege.
Nämlich: Die fünfte Dimension ist kleiner als ein Atomkern, in dem die Erde mitsamt dem Universum Platz findet.
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Zitate zum Thema Paradoxa und Paradoxie / Paradoxes and the Paradoxical
Religiöse Zitate
- Neti, Neti. (Übers.: Weder dies noch das.)
- Es bewegt sich, es bewegt sich nicht. Es ist weit, und es ist nahe. Es ist in all diesem, und es ist außerhalb von all diesem. IIsa Upanischade [BW 970] hinduistische philosophische Lehren
- Man kann sich als Bild ein Rad mit Speichen denken. Die Speichen sind die Religionen – nach außen hin entfernen sie sich immer mehr voneinander, gegen die Radnabe hin nähern sie sich alle. Und ganz in der Mitte eines jeden Rades gibt es einen geradezu mystischen Punkt, der still steht. Das klingt völlig paradox. Aber wenn wir darüber nachdenken, muss es diesen Punkt geben. In diesem Punkt ist alles äußerlich auseinanderstrebende eins. «Synthesis» hätten das die alten Griechen genannt. Hier liegt der Punkt der kompromisslosen Kommunikation, hier sind alle Speichen des Rades eins, ohne dass ihre Funktion nach außen dadurch aufgehoben oder verwischt würde. So führen die Brücken von Religion zu Religion über diesen transzendenten Punkt, der allen gemeinsam ist. In dieser nur mit Intuition zu erfassenden Dimension, in dieser «Kommunikation der Tiefe», wie sie einmal genannt wurde, sind alle Widersprüche aufgehoben, ohne dass die Grenzen der großen Lehren und Weltreligionen dadurch verwischt würden. Peter Grieder, Kurator des Tibet-Instituts, Rikon, CH, Beiratsmitglied der Weltbürgerbewegung
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Lustige Zitate
- Eine Frau ist eigentlich ein Mann, nur eben weiblicher. Absurdes Paradox des deutschen Frauenkabarettduos Missfits (1985-2005)
- Würdest Du mir bitte sagen, wie ich von hier aus weitergehen soll?
Das hängt zum großen Teil davon ab, wohin Du möchtest, sagte die Katze.
Lewis Carroll [~BW 420] (1832-1898) englischer Schriftsteller des viktorianischen Zeitalters, Fotograf, Mathematiker, Logiker, Diakon, Alice im Wunderland [BW 420] 1864
- Das Loslassen habe ich jetzt fest im Griff. Paradoxe Aussage
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- Die ernste Sache ist eine wahre Freude. [Res severa verum gaudium.] Lucius Annaeus Seneca (~1/4-65 n. Chr.) römischer stoischer Philosoph, Staatsmann, Naturforscher, Dramatiker, Epistulae morales [Briefe über Ethik an Lucilius] Sammlung von 124 Briefen, 23, 4, 65 n. Chr.
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Auch wenn eine Situation „für sich selbst spricht“, muss man dennoch ihre Bedeutung erfassen.
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- Die Sache spricht für sich selbst, aber was zum Teufel sagt sie?
Lat.: Res ipsa loquitur, sed quid in infernos dicit?
- Meist findet eine Überraschung statt, wenn man sie nicht erwartet hat. George W. Bush (*1943) 43. US-amerikanischer Präsident (2000-2008)
- Kräht der Hahn auf dem Mist, so ändert sich's Wetter oder es bleibt wie es ist. Deutsche Bauernregel
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Tragische Zitate
- Gib' uns Brot!, fordern die Frauen, die sich ihre hungrigen Kinder nicht ernähren können.
Wenn sie kein Brot haben, sollen sie eben Kuchen essen!, soll Marie Antoinette, nicht vertraut mit der grausamen Realität von Armut und Hunger, geantwortet haben.
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Zitate allgemein
Die Ersten werden die Letzten sein, und die Letzten werden die Ersten sein. Matthäus 19, 30 (NT)
Persönliche Bekenntnisse
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In nicht von einer Welt des Sollens
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- Ich gehörte zu jener seltsamen Rasse von Menschen,
die treffend beschrieben werden als Leute, die
ihr Leben lang Dinge tun, die ihnen zuwider sind,
um Geld zu verdienen, das sie nicht wollen,
um Dinge zu kaufen, die sie nicht brauchen,
um Leute zu beeindrucken, die sie nicht mögen.
Emile Gauvreau (1891-1956) US-amerikanischer Schriftleiter von Zeitungen, Autor
- Was immer du tust, ist unbedeutend, aber es ist wichtig, dass du es tust. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [BW 760] (1869-1948) indischer hinduistischer Weiser, spiritueller Führer der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung, Rechtsanwalt, Verfechter des gewaltlosen Widerstands zur Durchsetzung politischer Ziele
- Ich hatte das Glück, durch die Quantenphysik erkennen zu können, dass alle Paradoxa der Quantenphysik gelöst werden können, sobald wir Bewusstsein als Urgrund des Seins anerkennen. Interview mit Amit Goswami, Ph.D. (*1936) indienstämmiger US-amerikanischer Professor für Atomphysik, Universität von Oregon, Autor, Wissenschaftlicher Gottesbeweis, präsentiert von Magazin Was ist Erleuchtung (WIE), Craig Hamilton, Ausgabe 11
- Der machtvollste Willensakt ist, keinen [eigenen] Willen zu haben. Es ist ein Paradox. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US-amerikanische mystische Bewusstseinslehrerin, Energiemedizinerin, intuitive Diagnostikerin, Bestsellerautorin
- Das Gegenteil einer trivialen Wahrheit ist falsch, die Entsprechung einer großen Wahrheit ist ebenfalls wahr. Niels Bohr [BW 450] (1885-1962) dänischer Quantenphysiker, Nobelpreisträger für Physik, 1922
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Theodizee-Paradoxon
Barth führt aus, dass der Mensch nicht dazu berechtigt sei, Gott hinsichtlich der Existenz des Bösen anzuklagen.
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- Das Böse ist die „unmögliche Möglichkeit. Karl Barth ['Kirchenvater des 20. Jahrhunderts'] (1886-1968) Schweizer evangelisch-reformierter Theologe
- Das Paradoxe in alledem ist, dass der Konflikt im Reich der Linearität notwendig war, bis dies nicht mehr der Fall ist. Videointerview mit Christoph Karl La Due, US-amerikanischer inselbegabter, autodidaktischer Erfinder, Gründer von Holophasec 3D technologies zum Thema Holophasec Energy, präsentiert von Conscious Media Network, Gastgeberin Regina Meredith, Minute 29:22, 58:37 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt November 2009 Gelöscht
- Aber es wird ein Tag kommen, da meine Hand weit von mir sein wird,
und wenn ich sie schreiben heißen werde, wird sie Worte schreiben, die ich nicht meine.
Die Zeit der anderen Auslegung wird anbrechen, und es wird kein Wort auf dem anderen bleiben,
und jeder Sinn wird wie Wolken sich auflösen und wie Wasser niedergehen.
- Mit meiner Sprache will ich sehen, singend untersuche ich sorgfältig die Dinge. Die verdrehte Sprache bringt mich nahe heran, aber nicht zu nahe. Mit normalen Wörtern würde ich mit den Dingen zusammenstoßen, mit der verdrehten Sprache kann ich sie umkreisen und sehe sie klar. Yaminahua-Schamane, peruanischer Amazonas via Jeremy Narby (*1959) Schweizer-kanadischer Anthropologe, Autor von Die kosmische Schlange. Auf den Pfaden der Schamanen zu den Ursprüngen modernen Wissens, Klett-Cotta, 3. Auflage, 2007, zitiert in: Rezension zu Jeremy Narbys «Die kosmische Schlange». Wie Schamanen wissen, präsentiert von Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ), Florianne Koechlin, November 2002
- Indem ich meine Abhängigkeit akzeptiere, werde ich autonom. Michael Lukas Moeller (1937-2002) deutscher Psychoanalytiker, Professor für Seelische Gesundheit (1973-1983), Paartherapeut, Die Wahrheit beginnt zu zweit. Das Paar im Gespräch, rororo Sachbuch, 1988
- Die Normalsten sind die kränkesten, und die Kranken sind die Gesündesten. Videointerview mit Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, humanistischer Philosoph, Autor, Krank sind die Angepaßten!, präsentiert von TV Sender Bayern alpha, Masters of Wisdom, YouTube, 2:10 minutes duration, posted 10. February 2013
- Minder ist oft mehr. Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer, Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung, Der Teutsche Merkur, 1774
- Less is more. Robert Browning [Work LoC 450] (1812-1889) English Victorian poet, playwright, Andrea del Sarto, 1855
- Tiefgreifende Veränderungen anstreben, heißt, Lösungen zu suchen, die verletzlich machen – und genau das lehnen die meisten Menschen ab. [...] Paradoxerweise wirkt genau das, was scheinbar zu nichts führt. [...] Die Ermutigung, sich anderen Menschen gegenüber verletzlich zu zeigen, bietet einen Ausweg aus der Scham. Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. C.A.S., führender US-amerikanischer Sexsuchtexperte und -therapeut, Minneapolis, Wenn Sex zur Sucht wird, S. 254, Kösel-Verlag, 1992
- Ich weiß nicht, wer das Wasser entdeckt hat, aber ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass es kein Fisch war. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) kanadischer Philosoph, Geisteswissenschaftler, Professor für englische Literatur, Literaturkritiker, Kommunikationstheoretiker
- Geh' nicht links, geh' nicht rechts: geh' tiefer. Rev. Jim Wallis (*1948) US-amerikanischer evangelikalischer christlicher Autor, politischer Aktivist, Chefredakteur des Magazins "Sojourners"
- Gott zählt Menschen nicht eins, zwei, drei sondern eins, eins, eins. Ernst Fuchs (*1930) österreichischer Maler, Architekt, Grafiker, Musiker, Gründer der Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus
- Das vielleicht schicksalhafteste Paradox stellt unser gleichzeitiges Bedürfnis nach Erkennen und Unabhängigkeit dar: Das andere Subjekt steht außerhalb unserer Kontrolle, und doch brauchen wir es. […] Das heißt nicht, unsere Bindungen zu anderen zu lösen, sondern eher sie zu entwirren; keine Fesseln daraus zu machen, sondern einen Kreislauf des Erkennens. Jessica Benjamin (*1946) US-amerikanische Psychoanalytikerin, Feministin, The Bonds of Love, New York 1988
- Wer den Himmel im Wasser sieht, sieht die Fische auf den Bäumen. Widersinniges aus China
- Es schmerzt, auf Messers Schneide zu gehen.
Sinne nicht auf rächenden Ausgleich, sondern werde ungewöhnlicher. Unbekannt
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Zirkelschluss – Gesuchtes sucht Sucher
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- Das innerste Sein aller Existenz und Schöpfung ist der Zustand von Subjektivität. GOTT ist wirklich die Essenz von Subjektivität. Was von der Existenz wahrgenommen werden kann, ist das Gewahrsein der Gegenwart GOTTES in uns. Mit dieser Erkenntnis lösen wir den spirituellen Zirkelschluss, dass das, was sucht, dasjenige ist, was gesucht wird. Bezogen auf die Essenz ist es das Subjektive, das nach dem Subjektiven sucht. Die Illusion, dass es ein dualistisches Gegensatzpaar, genannt subjektiv kontra objektiv, gäbe, löst sich auf. Das tiefste menschliche Paradoxon ist, dass die Abhängigkeit von der Wahrnehmung den Menschen daran hindert, seine eigene Identität zu erkennen. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Das All-sehende Auge, S. 314, 4. Absatz, 2006
- Ohne Karma zu verstehen, erscheint das irdische Leben ungerecht und grausam. Für den naiven Betrachter sieht es so aus, als würden die Bösen laufen gelassen, während die Unschuldigen geschlachtet werden. Deshalb ist Glaube die Krücke, auf die die meisten Menschen sich stützen, um dieses Paradox zu erklären. Glaube ist die Überzeugung, dass es jenseits des Anscheins eine göttliche Wirklichkeit gibt. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Licht des Alls. Die Wirklichkeit des Göttlichen, S. 344, 2006
- Es ist offensichtlich, dass Neigungen die Tendenz haben, zurückzukehren. Gleichzeitig bieten sie jedoch die Gelegenheit zur Veränderung, beispielsweise, um das Paradox der Gegensätze zu überschreiten. Die Hawkins.Seele kann eine erneute physische Verkörperung wählen, körperlos bleiben oder die astralen Reiche erforschen und sich so in den Höllen und Fegefeuern durchkämpfen oder – hoffentlich unterstützt durch Hingabe an Liebe, Wahrheit, GOTT und/oder einen Erlöser in die Himmel aufsteigen. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Licht des Alls. Die Wirklichkeit des Göttlichen, S. 344, 2006
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Zitate (engl.) allgemein
I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Jesus Matthew 5, 44 (NT)
Jesus said to them: "When you make the two [i.e.
brain hemispheres]
into one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female, and when you make eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then shall you enter [the kingdom]." Gospel of Thomas [LoC 660], verse 22
Personal avowals
- I was part of that strange race of people
aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest
to make money they don't want
to buy things they don't need
to impress people they dislike.
- In my defenselessness my safety lies. A Course in Miracles [LoC 550/600], source unknown, 1976, rev. 1996
- Can you believe that autonomy is meaningful apart from Him [God]?
The belief in ego autonomy is costing you the knowledge of your dependence on God, in which your freedom lies. The ego sees all dependency as threatening, and has twisted even your longing for God into a means of establishing itself. But do not be deceived by its interpretation of your conflict. The ego always attacks on behalf of separation. Believing it has the power to do this, it does nothing else, because its goal of autonomy is nothing else. The ego is totally confused about reality, but it does not lose sight of its goal. It is much more vigilant than you are, because it is perfectly certain of its purpose. You are confused, because you do not know yours. A Course in Miracles workbook [LoC 550], Urtext, chapter 10, section 6, 1976, rev. 1996
- The most powerful act of will is to have no will. It's a paradox. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer
- The earth is conscious. Nature is conscious. All life is conscious. […] In keeping with the paradox of the Divine, our Enlightenment [the age of reason] turned the light off. The Enlightenment that began in the late 1400s in fact was the beginning of turning off our inner light. We began to take a reason[able] look at the universe. Everything had to have a reason. The end result was: everything that couldn't reason ceased to have value. Trees can't reason. Nature can't reason. Women don't reason very well. They are very emotional. […]
Intuition, the mystical sense, started to frighten people. […] Women don't trust their own mystical sense. They deny their own. [They]'ve bought into the system that reason governs the soul. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer, The Sacred Spaces, chapter 1, Morocco, October 2011
- You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi [LoC 550] (1207-1273) Persian Muslim poet, Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian
- The Government cannot make up their minds, and so they decide only to be undecided, resolve only to be irresolute, are adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful but impotent! Winston Churchill [LoC 510, influence LoC 500] (1874-1965) British prime minister
- Spirit is the suchness, the isness, the essence of each and every thing that exists. [...]
Paradox is simply the way nonduality looks to the mental level. Spirit itself is not paradoxical; strictly speaking, it is not characterizable at all. [...]
Hierarchy is illusion. There are levels of illusion, not levels of reality. [...]
You go from unconscious Hell to conscious Hell, and being conscious of Hell, of samsara, of lacerating existence, is what makes growing up – and being an adult – such a nightmare of misery and alienation. [...]
Development is not regression in service of ego, but evolution in transcendence of ego. Ken Wilber [LoC 490] (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, developer of Integral Theory, author, The Eye of Spirit. An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad, chapter 1 The Spectrum of Consciousness: Integral Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy, Shambhala Publications
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- Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know – all mystics – Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion – are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well.
Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Strange paradox, to be sure.
But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.
Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, spiritual leader
- Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox – without consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness. Peter Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, visionary social reformist, pacifist, Science and Spirituality, Timeline, March/April 1999
- I prefer to be a man of paradoxes rather than a man of pre-judgments. Jean Jacques Rousseau [LoC 465] (1712-1778) major Swiss French philosopher influencing the French Revolution, composer, writer of 18th-century Romanticism
- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes. Johann Wolfgang Goethe [LoC 465] (1749-1832) German poet, polymath, playwright
- We need both these processes [of each brain hemisphere]. We need division and we need union, but those two need also to be unified. Video lecture entitled Our Mind at War by Iain McGilchrist, M.D., British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Divided Brain, sponsored by the Literary Review of Canada, filmed by Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, location: Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 5. March 2012, YouTube film, minute 39:51, 52:08 minutes duration, posted 4. May 2012
- Less is more. Robert Browning [Work LoC 450] (1812-1889) English Victorian poet, playwright, Andrea del Sarto, 1855
- Minder ist oft mehr. Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer, Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung, Der Teutsche Merkur, 1774
- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. William John Henry Boetcker (1873-1962) US American religious leader, influential public speaker
- There's one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx (1890-1977) US American comedian, entertainer, actor
- I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) US American writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate, 1940, Nobel laureate in literature, 1962
- The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) US American writer, The Crack-Up, February 1936
- Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality. Michael Ellner, DD., CHT, MSH, US American medical hypnothist
- That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard Bach (*1936) US American Navy pilot, writer, The Bridge Across Forever. A Love Story', character Pan, 1984
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach (*1936) US American writer
- Inanna […] epitomized the essence of contradiction, of the unimaginable variety and possibility in the created world […] she introduced the possibility of the individual who thinks for herself/himself. […] Through the choices we make, we build the unique individuality of ourselves.
As the goddess of paradox, she is the model of unity in multiplicity. Each of us reflects a bit of her discordance in ourselves. Each of us is burdened with the chore of gathering our many conflicting pieces together into a semblance of order and congruence. Betty De Shong Meador, US American certified Jungian analyst, active in the women's movement, translator, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna, first author of record, Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart. Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, University of Texas, 2000
- Paradoxes are simply places where our rational minds bump into their own limitations. David Lewis Anderson, US American physicist, time travel researcher
- Don't go left, don't go right: go deeper. Rev. Jim Wallis (*1948) US American evangelical Christian writer, political activist, editor-in-chief Sojourners
- We are broken. And we will not be mended. Until we remember that we are unbreakable. Louise Diamond, Ph.D., US American graduate of Peace Studies, The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, founder of The Peace Company
- When you see
- that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion,
- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,
- when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors,
- when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you,
- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice,
you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand [LoC 400] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- What a strange paradox! Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he’s learning sorcery, but all he’s doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it. Carlos Castaneda [LoC 220] (*1925-supposedly †1995) Peruvian US American anthropologist, diplomat, author; issued by Don Juan Matus, major character in the series of books on Nagual 'Sorcery', The Power of Silence
- It hurts to be at the cutting edge. Source unknown
- Don't get even, get odder. Source unknown
- America has the most of everything, and the best of nothing. John Keats (1795-1821) English Romantic poet
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To be is to do – Sokrates [LoC 540]
To do is to be – Sartre [LoC 200]
Do be do be do – Sinatra
Written on a stone tablet in a tavern on the Greek island Naxos
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Personal avowals
- Throughout childhood and early adolescence, the paradox of existence and the question of the reality of the self remained a repeated concern for me. The personal self would sometimes begin slipping back into a greater, impersonal Self, and the initial fear of non-existence, the fundamental fear of Nothingness, would recur. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Preface, S. 10, Hay House, Februar 2002
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- If you hate yourself for being selfish, then be the epitome of selfishness; you defeat it by paradox and laughing at it. Dr. David R. Hawkins, source unknown
- Genius […] seems to proceed from sudden revelation rather than conceptualization, but there is an unseen process involved. Although the genius’s mind may appear stalled, frustrated with the problem, what it is really doing is preparing the field. […] There is a struggle with reason which leads, like a Zen koan, to a rational impasse from which the only way forward is by a leap from a lower to a higher attractor energy pattern. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. 164, Hay House edition, February 2002
- On the other hand, like love, laughter heals because it arises through viewing a small context from a larger and more inclusive one, which removes the observer from the victim posture. Every joke reminds us that our reality is transcendent, beyond the specifics of events. Gallows humor, for instance, is based upon the juxtaposition of the opposites of a paradox: the relief of basic anxiety then resolutes in a laugh. One of the frequent accompaniments of sudden enlightening realizations is laughter: The cosmic joke is the side-by-side comparison of illusion with reality. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. 221, Hay House edition, February 2002
- The soul is the author of its own fate by the exercise of its own choice and selection. Each gravitates to its own concordant dimension. Spiritual paradoxes may appear in response to spiritual choice; for example, the spiritual seeker wants love and joy but that intention triggers the surfacing of all that obstructs it and prevents its appearance. Those who dedicate themselves to peace and love automatically pull up from the unconscious all that is cruel, unloving, and hateful to be healed. This may bring about consternation until judgmentalism about it is replaced with compassion and forgiveness. These were, after all, what had obstructed the love and joy, so one can be thankful that these deterrents have been brought up to be resolved by the spiritual tools available. This process of spirituality, in which one works through the obstacles, may seem painful at times but it is only transitional. The mistakes now reappear but are resolvable and recontextualized from a higher understanding. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 24-25, 2003
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- Spiritual pride can work in two directions, either to augment vanity or, paradoxically, by taking the positionality that one is worse than others. To chant "I am nothing and He (God) is All" is just as far from the truth as the opposite extreme. The position "I am just a worthless worm" is just vanity in rags instead of in robes. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 330, 2003
- The Spiritual Will, invited by complete surrender, is thus capable of performing the seeming 'miraculous', whereas the personal will, paradoxically, often automatically triggers resistances, as anyone knows who has tried personal 'will power' to overcome even minor habits. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, chapter 3 "Orientation", S. 66, 2007
- Although ridiculing faith and trust, skeptics themselves exhibit the same naive confidence and faith in their own subjective internationalizations and mentalized perceptions. The skeptic states that the mind is unable to know the truth, and then, paradoxically, uses that very mind to prove the validity of doubt and mistrust, thus even the skeptic is basically motivated by the same naive trust. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 166, 2008
- Instead of being ashamed that we are a spiritual seeker with a physical illness, we instead become thankful and say, "Aha!" Something is coming up to be healed". We want the capacity to bring up the various things to be healed; thus, it is a sign of progress, not of falling back. We can be happy that we have a chance to heal those things that, paradoxically, are actually brought up by major or rapid spiritual progress. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Healing and Recovery, chapter 2 Assisting Healing, S. 62, 2009
- Paradoxically, benefit is derived by the self-interest of the ego when it begins to realize that there is a great advantage to unselfishness. When it learns of the benefit of letting go of egocentric goals, the ego itself then becomes the springboard to spiritual inquiry and the means to its own transcendence, realizing that humility is strength and not weakness, and that it is wisdom and not ignorance. The willingness to "forgive and forget" calibrates at 450 (reason/logic). The willingness to "forgive and surrender to God" calibrates at 540 (unconditional love). Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 1, S. 34, quote 1, Hay House, August 2011
- So you work like a dog to reach enlightenment, then you realize there's nobody to become enlightened. You thought there was somebody or some individual that's going to become enlightened and then you find out that that's fiction. (Laughter) You wasted your whole life pursuing the fiction that you [someobody] are going to become enlightened. Then you discover there is nobody to become enlightened! What a relief. Nobody here has to become enlightened. You don't have to buy into that goal in life. You say the heck with enlightenment. I just want to be stupid and ugly. To be happy if you're stupid and ugly means you're enlightened. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Cottonwood Seminar Handling Spiritual Challenges, DVD 1 of 3, 24. April 2010
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Listing paradoxes of the modern world
- Paradoxes in leadership
- The [seeming] opposite of a profound truth is also true.
- Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.
- The more important a relationship, the less skill matters.
- Once you find a management technique that works, give it up.
- Effective managers are not in control.
- Most problems that people have are not problems.
- Technology creates the [seeming] opposite of its intended purpose.
- We think we invent technology, but technology also invents us.
- The more we communicate, the less we communicate.
- In communication, form is more important than content.
- Listening is more difficult than talking.
- Praising people does not motivate them.
- Every act is a political act.
- The best resource for solving any problem is the person or group that presents the problem.
- Organizations that need help most will benefit from it least.
- Individuals are almost indestructible, but organizations are very fragile.
- The better things are, the worse they feel.
- We think we want creativity or change, but we really don't.
- We want for ourselves not what we are missing, but more of what we already have.
- Big changes are easier to make than small ones.
- We learn not from our failures but from our successes – and the failures of others.
- Everything we try works, and nothing works.
- Planning is an ineffective way to bring change.
- Organizations change most by surviving calamities.
- People we think need changing are pretty good the way they are.
- Every great strength is a great weakness.
- Morale is unrelated to productivity.
- There are no leaders, there is only leadership.
- The more experienced the managers, the more they trust simple intuition.
- Leaders cannot be trained, but they can be educated.
- In management, to be a professional, one must be an amateur.
- Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
- My advice is don't take my advice.
Richard Farson, Ph.D. (*1926) US American psychologist, author, educator, president and chief executive officer of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, Michael Crichton (1942-2008) US American author, producer, director, screenwriter, Management of the Absurd. Paradoxes in Leadership, Free Press, 13. March 1997-'
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Stillness is what creates love,
Movement is what creates life,
To be still, yet still moving –
That is everything!
Do Hyun Choe, Sugi master
Sugi = fishing tackle made from fluorocarbon instead of plastic monofilament
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Englische Texte – English section on Paradox
Koans, philosophical questions and synchronicities
Paradoxical situations, koans and questions cannot be solved in short term, they can only be embraced by many for a prolonged period of ambivalence.
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Good Thoughts, words, actions – tiles on the path to completeness
- Zarathustra teaches that it is through the paradoxical medium of the material world that human beings achieve spiritual completeness. Thoughts, words and actions have to be expressed through the material medium. The Zarathushti maxim is:
- good thoughts,
- good words and
- good actions.
The advancement of each individual spiritually towards haurvatat, (
perfection, completeness) comes along with each good
choice in thought, word, and action. Eventually the
world will become a better place.
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Funny Quotes (engl.) / Lustige Zitate
- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Steven Wright (*1955) US American comedian, actor, writer
- A pessimist and an optimist meet.
The pessimist: Well, it's not going to get any worse than that.
The optimist: Oh, yes it is!
- Two friends meet.
The first one says: Is your black spell over?
The second one replies: That was a white one, actually.
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Perfect Nobodyness
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I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore I am perfect.
Unknown
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Leaping from ME to WE – moral courage
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First they came for the Jews, and I stood in front and said,
"We are all Jews. You may not take us, but you can join us."
Then they came for the Gay men and Lesbian women, and I stood in front and said,
"We are all Gay. You may not take us, but you can join us."
Then they came for the Catholics, and I stood in front and said,
"We are all Catholic. You may not take us, but you can join us."
Then they came for angry people, yelling and banging their heads, and I stood in front and said,
"We are all angry. You may not take us, but you can join us."
They came for the people with slurred speech and jerking limbs, and I stood in front and said,
"We are all inarticulate. You may not take us, but you can join us."
By the time they would have come for me, there weren’t any of "them" left.
Paraphrased quote First they came...
coined by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
German Lutheran pastor, anti-Nazi theologian
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Making the two into one
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Jesus said to them: "When you make the two [i.e. brain hemispheres] into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye [i.e. mirror neurons], a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
Gospel of Thomas [LoC 660], verse 22
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Links zum Thema Paradoxa und Paradoxie / Paradoxes and the Paradoxical
Paradoxe Bildeindrücke
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Literatur
Literatur (engl.)
- Ken Wilber [LoC 490] (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes, Shambhala, 12. September 1982
- Neil Howe (*1951) US American historian, sociologist, economist, demographer, William Strauss, FourthTurning.com US American statistician, author, Generations. The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, Harper Perennial, 30. September 1992
- Richard Farson, Michael Crichton, Management of the Absurd. Paradoxes in Leadership, Free Press, 13. March 1997
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