The Paradoxes of Belief

We are reluctant to pursue the paradoxes of which belief is made.  We would rather it make a sense we can accept rather than offer the contradictions of dying and rising, giving up to possess, and the notion that sharing essential things is the only way to take hold of them.  It would be simpler were things themselves rather than their opposites, if we could live only by living and have only by having, if we could be ourselves as we burrowed deeper rather than when reaching farther.  But if we could do it that way, it would not be belief.