Being and Not Being

One might also add:-
The mundane and the Sacred.
Is there a difference? Only the free will can choose through faith and devotion to bind the two.

Quality and quantity work in this way too. If you feel riches are about quantity then you will worship material things (idols) but if you hold the true value of each small thing as the generosity of G_d then the quality is priceless. In this place greed does not stand a chance and the mudane is immediately sacred.

In the words of Dogan the Zen teacher of the 12th centuary - "When the opposites arise you have almost lost the way to salvation".

Great bottom line :

Paradox is our window to the Unknowable.

A major paradox is how can G-d be All Compassionate when such tragedies occur in our world. I guess it falls under ' light and darkness '. Tough paradox to swallow. I guess another modality is Divine Plan versus Free Choice which may fall under ' giving and withholding '. And these two bring up the greatest paradoxical question of all : Does the Unknowable exist or does the Unknowable not exist ?

I go with the former/window. It remains a paradox though.

Form is not the opposite of matter; the latter is contained in and by the former.

Quantity is not the opposite of quality.

And neither relate to paradox.

Confusion is often caused by getting too fancy and esoteric in describing aspects of life's absurdities. Perhaps better left as awe without thought.

Simply a thought for the day. A Paradox is the highwire we walk between the two sides of hothingness that is everything. A Dilemma is our need to make a choice between equally joral or ethical (right or wrong) alternatives.

"He mixes them and matches them at whim"

I don't think it is done at whim but at an unknowable plan.

He would not put such so difficult and sometimes so painful paradoxes in our lives just for a caprice.

To think so could be very painful in certain moments since in certain moments only the faith in His goodness and in the wiseness of His plans can sustain us.

I'm just amazed and astounded before such complexity! I know nothing; I understand nothing. I wonder whether knowledge is really capable of helping us since making sense out of things is such a difficult task. May G'd give us a pinch of understanding on how things work indeed. May HaShem enlighten us. Deconstruction is at work at me right now. May G'd build up something brand new and solid then.