What you see it's not what it is

Reading to understand the meaning can be mind twisting and literally, requires some out of mind flexibility to get into the author's state of mind at the time and place of the thinking process.

The sporadic quotes above will give anybody the sense of confusion if they're not familiar with the author train of thought and the time and place for his insights.

Without being well aware of this kind of knowledge it will seem impossible to comprehend the meaning behind the writing.

The beauty of this kind of expressions; that it is possible, by getting into the same mindset as the author's and that by familiarize oneself with their habits.

That doesn't mean that understanding is an exact science, but it's kind of art by itself, you understand it the way you read it.

One can only be responsible for his own saying, not how it might be understood.

The Prophet Gibran, Kahlil. Ch 8 On joy & Sorrow

Chapter 8 On joy & Sorrow THEN a woman said,rk with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. 16 Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow. And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you a...

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Different Opinions To Success Every-thing is relative to everything else Reading to understand the meaning behind any word that ever been written, requires a big deal of concentration, and literally some mind flexibility to get into the author's state of mind at the time and place of his/her thinking process. Ever wonder; for a moment; how every word is inter connected with the next or the previous one. Making sense out of the whole, requires connecting every word to the meaning of the rest. every-thing is relative to everything else, meaning, everything, without exception. Thinking in terms of time; only one thing comes to mind, that time is just an illusion. The measure of understanding required for achieving the goal is almost the same as reaching it; without being aware of the time needed to accomplish it (the goal) Keeping this idea in mind, one can imagine a variety of scenarios where the relativity factor always plays the mai...

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