Contrasts

About This Talk

Chris explores how contrasts help us see our lives more clearly, starting with a favorite example: without the darkness, we couldn’t see the stars. When change or unwelcome events arrive, he asks listeners to look for the contrast, and to bring the positive and the negative together so they can find balance.

Key Ideas

• We need the darkness of night to see the stars, and life’s hard moments can work the same way.
• An event you would rather not have had may lead to something greater you didn’t expect.
• Bringing positives and negatives together, instead of keeping them polarized, is how we learn balance.

“If it were not for the darkness, we couldn’t see the stars.”