interpretation

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to maintain the integrity of spiritual inquiry is to encourage radical questioning of all precepts/percepts and their interpretations.

In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person _ the __ourney_ of a particular __ero,_ in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell _ as a prism for understanding everything else.

When you__e been given a curse of perspective you don__ stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

Opportunities can become obstacles, same way obstacles can become opportunities; it all depends on how they are being interpreted by the mind of a person.

The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations.

Honey, when you say we can't communicate... what exactly do you mean?

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.