Through the swamp and muck at night the fool makes her way. She comes upon a seeming endless forest. She loses track of herself during the night, her map is useless and her feet sink around her. She falls into the mire, her spirit failing after so long, and as she clings to a rock, she hears the voice of other-worldly clarity.
"Do not despair for yourself, there is much good in you."
The fool looks up above her to see a woman hung by her ankle, bound and tied, clothed shabbily--a slave perhaps, or one sworn to poverty.
"I cannot escape this forest! I have tried and I have failed!" the fool disparately calls to the woman. "Can you tell me the way out?"
"There are many ways out. They all are within your possession. You have realized much in your life yet you know not of yourself. Suspend your belief in the world around you and you will see the answers within."
The fool sighs softly, closing her eyes and for many hours she is silent, motionless and aware of only herself. In a brief instant of clairvoyance she can see her path. Then further, deeper into the moment she sinks, finding finally what all those she had met on her journey were trying to tell her, she understands it all.
When she again opens her eyes, the woman she had seen above her was now nothing more than a rope dangling from a tree. As she stands, the mists part and her path becomes clear. The night is almost over...

Clarity, meditation, giving up your perception to adopt a new outlook. finding answers and gaining knowledge, introspection.

Sorry it took so long to bring out another one. I have been under the weather the last few weeks. This was a tough one for me. I ended up losing my first background to a power outage (save early, save often) but in a turn-around ended up with one ten times better. Still need to learn to paint rocks, but this was definitely one of my better backgrounds.