Your windows may look out on glorious country, but if you sit with your back to the light you won't see the view. Even if you face the windows you won't see much if the glass is smeared with dust. So it is with your outlook on life. Grime settles imperceptibly on the windowpanes of the mind and unless they are cleaned regularly you will get a distorted vision of the landscape outside the range of your own personal experiences. Occasional self-examination is a good safeguard against spiritual smugness and moral complacency, but there is a danger in too much inlooking.
Introspection has a downward twist towards morbidity.
Self-vindication can become a vice, blinding us to the daily claims of the external world. Do not look in and down. Look up and out. Troubles that seemed mountainous will shrink into insignificance as your gaze travels beyond them away to the golden edges of the broad horizon. Stop brooding on the problem immediately under your nose.