it is important for the heart to be vague, for the heart to be blind. remember this. it is an essential truth.

the habit of the world is to understand, or to claim it understands. it issues judgments, some based on nothing more than suppositions or fear, and others based somewhat legitimately upon past experience. but it is wrong, a fundamental error, to crystallize one's experience and stand above the world, as in a prismatic tower, and divide the world into good and bad, into tolerable and hated, no matter what one thinks one knows of the world.

even in the face of incontrovertible evidence, one must always maintain the capacity to be vague, to be forgetful, to be open. for in this, the world can be created anew, and the next moment can blossom into something that hasn't been seen before. understand this, and you will always be young, and you will always have the capacity to learn and to fall in love. forget this, and you go the way of all who are "wise"; cracked and divided by their own judgments, furrowed and trenched like their own haggard, worry-ridden skin, they fall away still issuing their monotonous commandments to an unlistening, and long "irrelevant" world...