Clear

Yesterday I went out walking and realized that perhaps the most important color is no color at all. It’s the color of air, the absolute clearness that allows us to see all the colors in front of us. Imagine if the air was blue—we couldn’t see a thing.

It’s so amazing that air surrounds us and sustains us, yet is completely invisible to us.What is the color of the wind? Only when air takes on a color—yellow smoke, gray fog, white blizzard—do we realize how much we need it to be clear.

Just look at what clear gives us. Through its transparency, we can see every color of the rainbow. Every blade of grass, every blossom,feather and twig.

“Clear” is just as important for our inner sight. When my vision is not colored by emotion or by what I want, I see the situation more clearly. I see what is actually happening, rather than what I want to happen. I see my own motives and actions and I can choose a wiser path. I see what is happening for the people around me and can respond better, rather than with knee-jerk reactions.

Ironic, isn’t it? Without the absence of color, we could never see the colors themselves.