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The First Pole of Paradoxical DemandsOne morning, I have to buy some SWG Credits for some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on gurney.
As we emerged from our init, the sunlight hit me. That is all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was, how warming, how sparking, how brilliant! I looked to see whether anyone else relished the golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground.
Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: gifts from life are precious cost but we are too heedless of them.
Here then is the first pole of paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.
Hold fast to life...but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of coin in the life, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.