Hallelujah

 
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled, but there are moments when we can transcend the dualistic system and reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by "Hallelujah." That regardless of what the impossibility of the situation is, there is a moment when you open your mouth and you throw open your arms and you embrace the thing and you just say, "Hallelujah! Blessed is the name." And you can't reconcile it in any other way except in that position of total surrender, total affirmation.

That's what it's all about. It says that you're not going to be able to work this thing out. This realm does not admit to revolution. There's no solution to this mess. The only moment that you can live here comfortably in these absolutely irreconcilable conflicts is in this moment when you embrace it all and you say, "Look, I don't understand a ... thing at all - Hallelujah!" That's the only moment that we live here fully as human beings.

~ Leonard Cohen