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Are You Willing To Pay the Cost for High-Grade Clarity?
It’s actually free for you, but it might bankrupt your ego.
Having clarity on what to do is helpful when it’s time to make a change in life. But unfortunately we can sometimes fool ourselves into thinking we’ve found clarity, when all we’ve really done is blurred the view.
To know if your clarity is false or true, it’s important to know the qualities that make it up.
How to clear your view
Understanding and direction are two separate traits. When you combine them, you get clarity. It’s like saying, based on the insight from my understanding, I know where to go and what to do next.
The key here is to make sure your understanding is whole, not partial. Most of the time, that means personal biases have to be abandoned because for understanding to be whole, it needs to be selfless.
The ego will do anything to survive
Judgment doesn’t have a place in understanding because it’s its natural opposite.
If understanding is flowing water, judgment is a dam.
Where understanding uses unconditional acceptance to gain the deepest insight, all judgement does is assign value in order to…
