PARADOXICAL (Complete Text)
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Micro Tale #260: "PARADOXICAL" by Leon Enriquez
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Start at the end. Glimpse clear hindsight. Yes, tell your tale. Flesh wise knowing. After all, failure can be most enlightening. Seek the benefits of life lessons. Don't forget to learn, unlearn and re-learn. The ultimate gains will come soon enough.
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Pain and suffering sculpt the fine lines of experience. Be ready to embrace the rich contours that confront your wealthy sensations. Don't dismiss the incredulous ideas or crazy scenes that confuse you. Joy wears a face.
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Petty ambition wears a certain indifferent arrogance. Stretch your confusion. Deliberate why suffering is good for you. Keep this learning tool that tells with fact not fiction. Don't underestimate your personal resilience. Deep within, you sense that life mirrors back to you your certain fears and feelings. All is attracted and well-deserved.
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Life is an unfolding of possibility and reality an aspect of becoming. Yes, you do it to yourself without even considering the consequences of sowing and reaping. Yet, you like to wallow thinking that you are the helpless victim.
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Realise that as you journey on your way, you will meet and encounter situations that are aligned with your best self-interests. Yet, you still choose to label each upfront experience as either good or bad based on your fickle fancy. Still, you get what you fancy mostly on an unconscious level.
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Look closer and you will see the light. At first, the brightness will blind you for an abrupt moment. There is no escaping the wonders of reality realised from close proximity. Making sense of the momentary dilemma and paradoxical conflicts can be somewhat illuminating. The lesson is simple yet profound. Stupidity has no expiry date.
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You did it to yourself. Then, you feel obliged to blame someone else. Why? Because you have set yourself up to be the fool that you often think you are not. Consider the contrary view. You seek wisdom but you enjoy stupidity. In this, the familiar axiom "Fools seldom differ" makes good sense.
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Self-doubt precedes self-recognition. A wise man is a fool who is aware that it's better to play the fool, and thus be able to rise and fall aligned with the pulse of life. Be as the transitory bubble that floats upon the cosmic sea of eternity.
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Thus, the profound truth shows up in your poignant illumination. Notice also that despite your struggles, you now miraculously arrive at the threshold of a personal vendetta. Or perhaps, an awakening of some sort. By grace, unmerited illumination arrives to inspire you. Only the start is optional. All else will follow.
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Small wonder then that conflict often leads to abrupt conscious self-awareness. The journey is the reward. Life is truly magnificent. Each moment presents you with the awesome mystery of life. Spur yourself to participate in the banquet of life as the menu unfolds for your timely selection. Be as a tomato, green and growing -- and not ripe and dying! Dare to live bravely and happily no matter your circumstances in the arena of life.
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Consider your purpose and passion. Live a plural peace but begin with a certain gaze and poise. Arm yourself with faith and hope. You are sufficient just as you are just like a delicate flower. Bloom and make time and space greet the expression of your beauty and truth in primal grace. Exult in your inner ecstasy of joy and bliss. Show your soul in happiness that sizzles.
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Love is the silver bullet to all the problems you encounter wherever you may be, or go. Oftentimes, you do not find agreement in this essential truth. But it is so if you examine the matter more closely. To decipher the truth about love's efficacy, you must be willing to allow love to take its own course. Follow the urgings of your heart and soul that prompts you on your way.
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