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 12 On Crime & Punishment

Chapter 12 On Crime & Punishment THEN one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak to us of Crime and Punishment . And he answered, saying: It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, That you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself. And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while unheeded at the gate of the blessed. Like the ocean is your god-self ; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self dwells not alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening. And of the man in you would I now speak. For it is he and not your god-self nor the pigmy in the mist that knows crime and the punishment of crime. Oftentimes have I heard you speak...

Thoreau WALDEN Chapter VI: Visitors

Chapter VI: Visitors I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted wit...

Blast from the past CXI (111)

Wisdom through the ages; seen through the insightful eyes of powerful minds throughout history, yet forever truer nowadays

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