"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself; I am large, I contain multitudes."
Walt Whitman
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the things that is most fascinating about life is the fact that
we as human beings are a bundle of contradictions. We sense a stable
core at the center of our beings, but are carried away by a thousand
passions. We want to conform to a singular view of Life, but Life
itself keeps showing up as a many-sided jewel. Every truth implies its
opposite. Oneness keeps shapeshifting into multiplicity and
multiplicity continually transforms into Oneness. Eternity is in love
with time, and time forever seeks to partner with the Eternal. Light
cannot reveal itself without some degree of shadow, and vice versa. "We
are gods with anuses," as cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker famously
declared. It's no wonder that quite a few indigenous tribes celebrate a
trickster side to the Creator. Raven, Crow, Coyote, Iktomi the Spider.
The best thing we can do is throw our heads back and LAUGH at the
wonder of it all :)
Photos: (Top) Rose Crown / Queen's Crown and West Glacier Lake; (Middle) Subalpine Arnica, a quartzite block, and Medicine Bow Peak; These two photos were taken in Wyoming's Snowy Range on August 22-23, 2015; (Bottom) Subalpine Aster (Erigeron) and Notchtop Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, August 25, 2015
Photos: (Top) Rose Crown / Queen's Crown and West Glacier Lake; (Middle) Subalpine Arnica, a quartzite block, and Medicine Bow Peak; These two photos were taken in Wyoming's Snowy Range on August 22-23, 2015; (Bottom) Subalpine Aster (Erigeron) and Notchtop Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, August 25, 2015
