{"id":3099,"date":"2015-02-27T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T04:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2015-02-28T00:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:06:19","slug":"3099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Okey Dokey Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, I have been thinking long and hard about paradoxes.<\/p>\n

As life would have it… the more you consider certain paradoxes… the more confusing the situation seems.<\/p>\n

To define it in abbreviated terms, a paradox is when you have…. let’s say…. more than one boat.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 You have two boats.\u00a0 So you need more than one dock.\u00a0 You then…… have a pair of docks.
\nSorry.
\nParadox.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a statement or proposition that, despite sound ( or what seems like sound reasoning ) ….. leads one to a conclusion that seems senseless….. or logically unacceptable.<\/p>\n

A paradox is basically a contradiction,\u00a0 inconsistency, or incongruity.
\nSome days… I feel like I am a complete and total anomaly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From minute to minute when I am really on a roll.<\/p>\n

But there is a point to this.\u00a0 Sometimes life itself doesn’t seem to make sense.\u00a0 There are moments when everything seems like it is all just spinning around on the Crazy-Axis.\u00a0 But among this crazy world… we can also know calm.\u00a0 And peace.<\/p>\n

You see….\u00a0 We are okay.\u00a0 Exactly as we are.\u00a0 No matter what society, or our conditioning, or guilt may be telling us…. WE ARE OKAY.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, with me….\u00a0 I have a hidden feeling…..\u00a0 that I could be doing things better.\u00a0 I will get this feeling that\u00a0 I am\u00a0 not quite sure how to live life.\u00a0 I mean,\u00a0 what if I am doing this all wrong.<\/p>\n

But the message I get time and again… paradoxical or not…. is that the universe is going the way it should be going.\u00a0 And so is everything in it.<\/p>\n

There is no need to be anything else, or anywhere else, but where we are at this very moment.\u00a0 Every moment.<\/p>\n

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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I have been thinking long and hard about paradoxes. As life would have it… the more you consider certain paradoxes… the more confusing the situation seems. To define it in abbreviated terms, a paradox is when you have…. let’s say…. more than one boat.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 You have two boats.\u00a0 So you need more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}