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Narrowing Into Expansion

3/8/2023

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If I had to use a single phrase to describe the overall course of my life over the past three or four years, I would say that it has been narrowing into expansion. 

On the one hand, many of the things I once found intriguing no longer pique my interest. Many of the things in which I once held at least a modicum of faith and hope have become distasteful and unsatisfying. Many of the things I used to think about have become unthinkable. The imaginable -- unimaginable. 

On the other hand, many things I did not know existed now exist for me. Many of the things I could barely conceptualize now fill me with unfathomable faith and hope. I find I can now think about things I once believed to be unthinkable. My imagination overflows with the unimaginable. 

Perceptions narrow; intuition expands.

​Narrowing into expansion. 
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bruce g charlton
3/9/2023 08:18:58

@Frank - You are turning into a trad theologian; what with these clever and mind-stunning abstract paradoxes such as 'narrowing into expansion'.

Before long you will be saying things like " we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Essence... "

And then where would we be?!

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Francis Berger
3/9/2023 12:38:50

@ Bruce - My future plans include writing posts solely in Latin.

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Francis Berger
3/11/2023 06:15:15

@ Bruce - Just as a side note, I do not understand what is so "abstract" and "paradoxical" about what I have noted.

A narrowing of perception leads to an expansion of intuition.

What is abstract and paradoxical about that? Seems concrete to me.

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lea
3/12/2023 03:13:38

Paradoxes are just duality conditioning that we cannot see past, yet. Perception has to regard human senses (for the sake of meaningful conversation), and assumes it's average/ usual functionality which is nothing to write home about. We have far greater potential but its being clogged up by constant distraction/ pollution/ disruption/ energy siphoning and so on.
I'm doing multiple of these things to myself while writing this post and the irony of that small cosmic joke is not lost on me. Separation in unity just has to be how things operate at certain levels, experience can only exist if distinction does at the same time. Trying to fit whatever lies beyond that in words is a futile exercise.

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