The Poetic One That Invites You to ’Put Down Your Sword’

2022-02-06

What if everything you’re DOING to make things better is only making things worse? (What if it’s actually the DOING that’s the problem?) What if it turns out that your strengths (your ideologies, your values, your opinions) are your weaknesses, right now, and your weaknesses are your strengths? What if the need to make someone listen or see or understand makes that same someone more determined not to listen or see or understand? What, then? Would you be willing to change your approach, to re-consider, and to let go of...

What if everything you’re DOING to make things better is only making things worse? (What if it’s actually the DOING that’s the problem?)

What if it turns out that your strengths (your ideologies, your values, your opinions) are your weaknesses, right now, and your weaknesses are your strengths?

What if the need to make someone listen or see or understand makes that same someone more determined not to listen or see or understand?

What, then?

Would you be willing to change your approach, to re-consider, and to let go of the ‘how’ in order to achieve the ‘what’? Would you be willing to put down your cherished sword? Well?...

“Defence is the first act of war.” - Byron Katie

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MUSIC: Unbroken Spirit by Sunfish Grove courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

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