A Circular Paradox?

Life is way too rough (and interesting) to travel it alone...

Yet it is too difficult (and challenging and personal) to travel it with someone pulling in other directions...

Yet we are each too unique (at least I am) to find many others going in the same direction... people that "get me" and allow me to be true to my own heart...

Is there such a thing as a circular paradox?
Or is there another word for it???
Or do you supposed this is what community is all about???

If opening ourselves up and connecting with people is at the heart of things, 

then what good is it to just connect with those that already agree with us?

Wouldn't the test of creating any sort of community be this: 

going deeper than thoughts and ideas to the core of being, 

the ground of being, where connections are based on 

what resonates with just being human???

Maybe true community (not just a bubble)

is by nature a circular paradox.

“In true community we will not choose our companions. 

For our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. . . .

Instead our companions will be given to us by grace.

Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and the world.

In fact, we might define true community as that place

Where the person you least want to live with lives. . . .”

(Parker Palmer, 1977; as quoted in Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk Through The Quaker Tradition)