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 11 On Buying & Selling

Chapter 11 On Buying & Selling AND a merchant said, Speak to us of Buying and Selling. And he answered and said: To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. When in the market-place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, – Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour. To such men you should say: “Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net; For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.” And if ...

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Wisd om through the ages as seen through the eyes of the most insightful minds throughout history and yet more truer than ever nowadays

H.D.THOREAU: Walden Pond Chapter XI: Higher Laws

Chapter XI: Higher Laws As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for me. The wildest scenes had become unaccountably familiar. I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me. I like someti...

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