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PARADOXES FOR THE NEW YEAR
I am utterly insignificant, and yet infinitely To be alive is infinite ecstasy; to be alive is
valuable deep melancholy
My work and efforts are meaningless, and yet Time as we experience it is not real, but a per-
how we spend our lives matters. We must be sistent threat is stolen time and attention by
compelled to respond to ‘that of God in every- trivialities
one’ The world’s darkness is not separate from me,
Individual choice matters, and yet nothing we I, too, contain worlds of tilted possibility to
accomplish in life is the result of our individu- good or evil
al efforts Values are true, in so far as they are embodied
No success, or perceived success, can be Separation and otherness is a human illusion,
claimed by me alone; however, my failures are our life’s work is to bring all living beings into
my responsibility alone kinship with one another
Denise Hearn is the co-author of The Myth of Capitalism.
Sacred Spaces of Ireland Tour
May 27- June 7, 2020; Explore Christian
Celtic monasteries &pre-Christian sites
with an Irish-born spiritual director.
www.tourmagination.com/ireland/
Videos http://bit.ly/SacredIrelandTour
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