My groceries, yes. Add to the paradox- I want to hear.

Paradoxical-ish, a Poem-ish

Lyndsey Rieple

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The more I know, the less I know.

Life is serious and seriously light.

Try but don’t try too hard.

Spiritual yet practical.

I am the fierce wind and the gentle brook.

Feelings are valid without being factual.

Feeling good versus believing the good.

I care by not caring.

Falling in or falling up?

Actions above words. Words are in the actions too.

One day, you will know me by the way I open a jar, put the lid pieces together, smell the contents, and carefully choose a spoon or a knife to smooth its contents out with gravity’s help. Who cares if I said I was going to do this.

What I say is for me, about me, and to me.

You are a mirror to who I am. The closest people mirror who I want to be.

I have a lot of opinions. That’s all they are.

I don’t know what the norm is- only the norm by which my filter filters. I don’t seek peace with my filter. I am peace when I detach from the attachment I have with you. I wish this was my norm.

Do not trust the pedestal I have put you on. I will pull it out from under you. I wish I would have thought to put some pillows under the pedestal.

Humility is the strongest muscle that I want.

Can I be vulnerable all the time? Can I be open minded all the time? Even though I might want that, I’m working on other stuff.

What I deserve is nothing. What I am worth is everything.

My longings long for something that I already have within me.

I love my pain, but something woke me up and drug me to fruitful work.

The world is so loud by what we are not saying.

The limits of what I take in are different than the limits I put out.

My dark side is right next to my light side.

The more I hear you speak, the less I want to hear. The more I hear you speak, the more I want to hear.

The more I speak, the less I want to speak.

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