Tony Schwartz | Life-Built Poems

Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom): an understanding that energy, vitality and passion cannot be given; they can only be found. [Your liveliness comes from inside you. No amount of urging by outside forces can make you vital, can make you care. You have to find it in yourself, for yourself.] Here’s the thing: If you don’t really care whether some idea or conceptualization becomes a reality, if the process of getting to the finish line only induces a body-shuddering yawn,…

RUBBING TWO TRUTHS TOGETHER

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Sometimes rubbing together two truths could produce a whole other way of seeing that might lead to new ways of thinking. It’s sort of like rubbing two sticks together to make a fire, another way of Un-Seeing. One natural progression brought on by rubbing together two equal and opposite truths is this: CONFLICT –> PARADOX –> REVELATION Think about it. It is how new hypotheses are formed and how new business deals (and art and poetry and all kinds of…