The third way acknowledges:
“That is true and that is true, too,
and I’ve got to learn to coexist with both of them.”
It’s not fully a third position,
but a holding tank where you recognize the truth that’s in both positions
without trying to dismiss either one of them.
That’s not easy. You see why this takes such discernment. First, the two must be honestly named before you can remake them into a new kind of one!
Contradictions are not impediments to the spiritual life; rather, they are an integral part of the spiritual life. Every highly conscious person I have met has struggled with more than one deep contradiction. Contradictions don’t encourage you to abandon your critical faculties, but to sharpen them.
...hold the truth of both positions and take some degree of responsibility for both positions.
Let’s bring this to our contemporary scene. Can you be willing to honestly help carry the shame that has been projected onto our black brothers and sisters and to sincerely carry the responsibility that police officers feel, knowing there are good and bad people on both sides? ~R. Rohr
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