{"id":2504,"date":"2021-01-21T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:39:13","slug":"the-importance-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/the-importance-of-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Every morning I try for a clarity detached from certainty. A clarity about how I ought to be, what I should care about and focus on. Yet there are categories of dilemmas for which no amount of information or special knowledge will provide clarity. These topics drive some of us into extended existential crises. Am I spending my life well? Am I giving my time to the right people? Am I supporting the right group? Do I need to update my political beliefs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clarity on these types of questions is rarely accessible through study, contemplation, or experimentation alone. Sometimes external shocks \u2014 like a death experience \u2014 provide the necessary illumination. More often, however, the clarity we need seems to come through the development of certain qualities, like self-reliance, faith, and courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Focus<br \/>\n<\/strong>Clarity is a powerful sorting mechanism. It allows us to quickly dismiss that which is irrelevant or harmful. It\u2019s difficult to become addicted to your social feed when you\u2019re clear about your intentions. It\u2019s difficult to become overwhelmed by media and options when you\u2019re clear about what you\u2019re looking for.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sense of Safety<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">When you can\u2019t sense what\u2019s around you, it\u2019s not safe to move.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Imagine driving on the road on a Friday night. Your car lights and those around you allow you to see where potential dangers are. Then huge rain droplets start hitting your windshield. Suddenly you can\u2019t see as well as you previously could. The lights start blurring, creating anxious moments of blindness. You hit your brakes. A 100 Km\/h trip becomes a 60 Km\/h trip. People suddenly show what terrible drivers they are; you can\u2019t trust them in these new conditions. The blocked view \u2014 the loss of clarity \u2014 reduced the sense of safety on the road, throwing everyone off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Honesty<br \/>\n<\/strong>A lie is, by definition, a distortion. When we lie to ourselves, we remove our ability to see clearly.\u00a0Suppose a young man seals a bag with his unwanted emotions at twenty and then waits fifteen or twenty years before he opens it again. What will he find? Sadly, the sexuality, the wildness, the impulsiveness, the anger, the freedom he put in<strong>,<\/strong> have all regressed; they are not only primitive in mood, they are hostile to the person who opens the bag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Stillness<br \/>\n<\/strong>Stillness is openness. It\u2019s what you feel on a hike, in the embrace of a loved one. Stillness is you with your ego turned way down \u2014 receptive, nonjudgmental. When you become still, the noise stops, the silt settles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Memento Mori (A Glimpse of Death)<br \/>\n<\/strong>If you hold a healthy awareness of your own mortality, your eyes will be opened to the grandeur and glory of life, and that will evoke the good virtues such as hope, generosity, and gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meditating sincerely on the inevitable cessation of experience can provide a clarity unavailable when we take eternity for granted. This may be our last day to kiss our wife, pet our dog, drive past that forest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning I try for a clarity detached from certainty. 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