CONFUSION

  
To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing. Then the pain of
contradiction is transformed into the mystery of paradox... The capacity for paradox is the measure of spiritual strength and the surest sign of maturity.

-- Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow

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The night seemed to have reached its middle point of intensity and the darkness was now much darker than before. My brain was brimming with half-formed ideas of the most far-reaching character but I repressed them firmly and determined to confine myself wholly to finding the bicycle and going home. 

-- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman