Paradox

<p>Professor Mary Holmes called paradox the natural condition of the</p><p>world. It is both the working principle and the mystery of life... We are</p><p>always surrounded by paradox because all of creation is the union of</p><p>opposites. All energy comes from the union of opposites. Holmes is</p><p>here tying our experience of paradox to our consciousness of opposites.</p><p>And her insight reminds us that though our human categories of thought</p><p>are insufficient to contain all of reality yet our experience of paradoxical</p><p>contraries invites us to ask: What is the unity that binds these opposites</p><p>into relation to one another that reveals two mutual exclusives as</p><p>paradoxically parts of one underlying reality?</p><p>The following observations consider without finality some of the</p><p>fundamental contraries that we human persons experience as paradoxes</p><p>in contemplating ourselves and the world.</p>