Without clarity, all activity becomes egocentric. Self-centered thoughts color the mind with filters of ideas. First impressions become distorted, change the way we perceive our actions. Our thoughts on recollection, review images as we would photographs. The quality perceived decides future actions. The self functions in a mode of preservation. To protect body, mind, spirit, and soul, the self judges events as good or bad. Markers are placed as attachments on leaves of pages of a book. The book of time captures these reflections for reference on how to act in the presence of some people, places, things that evoke events colored as impressions within the mind. Seeing the world with clarity wipes clean the slate of traces colored in the mind. Attachments are removed, to allow free, open, clear-eyed, conscious activity without restraints from past recollections. Clarity allows freedom of motion. Otherwise, we are all slaves to our thoughts, emotions, and recollections in time. The book of time locks us into patterns of behavior. Our spontaneity to each moment remains dormant, asleep. We become somnambulists, sleepwalkers, unaware of conscious activity. Locked into behaviors, modes of being, we lose sight of what's real and what's a dream. We perceive ourselves and others as selves, as books of time set on shelves, forgotten. Encountered, each person becomes a self, locked into a mode of being, not free to choose, to act with spontaneity in each moment to all that life offers.
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