You see, the emperor didn’t know he’d been swindled. He didn’t know that he wasn’t wearing any clothes. I know there are specific lessons that we are “supposed” to get from the story, but in ever understood why it was such a bad thing that he’d been fooled. After all, it didn’t matter until someone ELSE pointed the fact out to him. Then, suddenly, the fact that he was fooled mattered.
I’m not saying that I’d rather live life ignorant of my shortcomings, but I do think that those other opinions aren’t always necessary. There are matters of the spirit, of the soul, that require only reflection and little additional input.
Illuminate Possibilities 