Paradox

All the most profound truths lie in paradox—and death itself is a paradox, the end yet the beginning, all quite indescribable but all utterly real—another paradox—and in the end the ultimate reality…lies beyond myth, beyond metaphor, beyond symbol, beyond analogy, beyond words, beyond the breath of life itself…and where there’s paradox there’s eternity, because beyond all the paradoxes lies the eternal truth.

__From the novel Ultimate Prizes, by Susan Howatch

(More on this a little later. I'll let you chew on it for awhile.)

shalom, matt