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Paradoxes
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“If I can let you go as trees let go / ... Lose what I lose to keep what I can keep, / The strong root still alive under the snow, / Love will endure — if I can let you go.”
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“All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.”
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“To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.”
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“One gains a certain hold on one's life / by boldly casting it aside.”
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“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”
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“Whatever is said may also be denied. Every realization contains the seeds of its opposite.”
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“Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.”