Oh my. Look at all the times when arithmetic doesn't hold. Kissing. I give you a kiss. Do I have less kissness? More!
Gift Giving. The pleasure direction is not always the direction that the object passed. What joy the giver receives, when the gift is taken with delight. Oh, those lovely times.
A mom and baby nursing. Mutual. As much as the babe hungers for the milk, the mom hungers to feed her. Take it further. A few months ago, this babe and the mom were one being. That never really stops.
The arithmetic of love. A mother loves her one baby one hundred percent. (Also, this small one takes up one hundred per cent of her thought, her time, her concern, her delight, her wonder). Once there are two, or seven children, one hundred per cent.
Ah, once we let go of the arithmetic, of scoreboards and the notion that "fair" means anything at all, we are free to love.
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Every bit of advice, and its opposite, are helpful. It all depends on which way you are tipping over at a particular time. Too impulsive or too reflective. Too giving or too guarded? Too busy or too lazy?
The truth and its opposite are true:
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides."
How I love the Crazy, Crazy Wisdom, where paradox makes good sense. Once we embrace paradox, "The truth and its opposite are true" we are well on the way.
I love surprise. ////I love routine. Both are true for me.
"Don't be interesting. Be interested"///////. "Fascinate, intrigue, instruct and delight". Both!
Scout Listening, to open our minds, explore, find out something new. Be willing to change our minds./////Hold fast to what you believe and value.
Murray Enkin I want to live in the moving resonance between these opposites. Not a happy medium and not a middle ground. 100% this one and 100% that one.
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