To achieve a life of clarity, it’s essential for you to carefully evaluate your beliefs. It’s not enough to simply accept what you’ve been told or what you believe to be true. Rather, you must be willing to critically analyse and challenge your own perspectives in order to arrive at a clearer understanding of yourself and the world around you.

As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche noted, encountering resistance and opposition can serve to strengthen and fortify your beliefs. It’s through this process that you can begin to distinguish between what is true and what is not. By allowing others to critique and question you, in a spirit of benevolence, you can better identify any misconceptions or misunderstandings you may hold.

Ultimately, your goal should be to align yourself with the truth, which is immutable and everlasting. This requires a willingness to be open-minded and receptive to new ideas, while also being willing to subject your own beliefs to rigorous scrutiny. Only by doing so can you hope to arrive at a more profound and enduring understanding of yourself and your place in the world.

Clay Lowe @clowe