Quotes About Ambiguity

La vida duele pero es todo pero es nada pero es cierta.

Vaya usted a saber quién soy yo.

noto que en la pared a mis espaldas una mariposa negra y sucia está dándome una mala noticia que no entiendo.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

When you look at the belief that it is going to be here for the rest of your life, I want you to do a few small things with it. Literally, push the picture off in the distance and move it over and pull it up into that place of uncertainty so, when you look at it and think, Am I gonna be stuck like this forever? You say, Ehhh, maybe yes, maybe no.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

The Kennedy brothers seemed neither as grand and omniscient as the "court histories" that sprang up after the president's assassination portrayed them, nor as cunning and shameless as later books, such as Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot, argued. They were both self-creative and self-destructive.

Zen Buddhist dictum that "the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

The fundamentalist mind...is essentially Manichean; it looks upon the world as an arena for conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, and accordingly it scorns compromises (who would compromise with Satan?) and can tolerate no ambiguities.

And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

It was like so, but wasn't.

We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all things possible, and the ear is on its way to being free.

What we want, finally, from friends, is that they have no more clue than we do.

Things with clean, concise, right answers are antidotes to human existence.

Some were as singable as any human tune. He counted, sensitizing to the calls that played off one another, each a solo against a mass chorus. He lost count after a dozen, unsure where to lump and where to split. Every complex riff was identifiable, although Weber could identify none. Softer, in the middle distance, he heard the shush of cars along Interstate 80 whooshing like sprung balloons.

Everyone's confusing. And everyone's confused

Hate can be helpful to certain causes. It unites a group quickly, it gives a person identity—even if it is a negative one—and, most of all, it takes away doubt and all free-floating anxiety. It gives us a place to stand that feels superior and in control. Hate settles the dust and ambiguity that none of us like. Hate is much more common, and more immediately effective, than love. Hate, as we will sadly see below, makes the world go 'round.

In short, good leaders must have a certain capacity for non-polarity thinking and full-access knowing (prayer), a tolerance for ambiguity ( faith), an ability to hold creative tensions (hope), and an ability to care (love) beyond their own personal advantage.

Every resurrection story seems to strongly affirm an ambiguous—yet certain—presence in very ordinary settings, like walking on the road to Emmaus with a stranger, roasting fish on the beach, or what appeared like a gardener to the Magdalene

Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?

Indeed, a good hint that you've entered the realm of Art is that you immediately feel like giving up.

we cannot rule out the

system. The automatic