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The wise can clearly see the darkness
I’ll never know what I don’t know, but I can know what is to experience the unknown
Clarity. That’s the word that comes to mind when in the middle of overwhelming problems I ask myself, what do I want?
Not whiteness, nothing completely blank, but just clarity.
Clarity in the middle of darkness. Why do we associate our difficult moments with darkness?
Clarity’s what rises from those dark moments. You don’t qualify with clarity unless you come from the dark.
Different feeling to be in the dark than feeling blue. Blueness is in some way sadness, melancholic. But dark is even difficult to associate with only one emotion.
Darkness is partly about fear, uncertainty, impotence. It’s dark when we can’t see. We don’t see what we don’t know. Knowing is seeing. Darkness is the unknown.
But not the unknown that happens when you are in a room that suddenly gets dark. In that case, you know what it’s there. Your ability to move around isn’t optimal but you can do it. There is some reasonable uncertainty but you still can mind the room.
There is this other unknown that is the darkness of a place you don’t recognize even if you try. And it’s far from good.
