How to Gain Clarity and Boost Your Life

Seeing is achieving.

“Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.”

— John Keats

Two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire.

Afterward, they stop to rest. The face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely spotless.

Which of the two will wash his face?

That’s a silly question — the one with the dirty face, you might think.

But you are wrong.

The fireman with the dirty face will look at the other one and assume that he looks like him. And, vice versa, the man with the clean face will see his colleague’s face smeared in with black and think: “I must be dirty too. I’d better wash it.”

This parable by Paulo Coelho illustrates how people are distorted mirrors. What others reflect on you, is not what you want.

Looking outside is deceiving. Search within instead.

This is why regaining clarity will boost your life.

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