{"product_id":"paradox-9798218500597","title":"Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003e Professor Mary Holmes called paradox \"the natural condition of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld. It is both the working principle and the mystery of life... We are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealways surrounded by paradox because all of creation is the union of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopposites. All energy comes from the union of opposites.\"3 Holmes is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehere tying our experience of paradox to our consciousness of opposites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd her insight reminds us that though our human categories of thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare insufficient to contain all of reality, yet our experience of paradoxical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtraries invites us to ask: What is the unity that binds these opposites\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto relation to one another, that reveals two mutual exclusives as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparadoxically parts of one underlying reality?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The following observations consider without finality some of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efundamental contraries that we human persons experience as paradoxes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein contemplating ourselves and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"One Mind Good Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900079542546,"sku":"9798218500597","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f33186be-6c55-48a9-85f2-e237f7b101b2.jpg?v=1738374797","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paradox-9798218500597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}