Any information in isolation is difficult for us to know what it means. To know what is true, we need contrast.

Hence our tendency to compare it to something else… to create an apple to apples or
orange to oranges comparison, as in day and night and East and West.

There is nothing wrong with comparisons, however, when ignored what is going on,
word-masters can take advantage of this trait of worduser behavior. The setup can be rigged so that a selfish word-master’s audience ends up comparing apples to oranges, or even ends up believing an apple is an orange.

There are many ways to do this. On any purchase, when you see the price, is it
expensive, cheap, or right? Right always wins in the end, of course, but it depends
entirely on who set up the comparison. Who controlled the context? Was it you? Is it a
friend? Or is it someone of low moral standards and some mastery of words?

I think understanding words goes a long way in helping you be the one in charge of
who is at the steering wheel.

Nowhere is this more important than with you

You is among the words what the sun is among the stars–every star, blade of grass,
tree, river and cloud knows where the sun is–the center of your unique verse
(universe), the fixed star that is guiding you dead and alive, asleep and awake, the
benefits of which can be known only after the fact.

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has
been put in every heart.”
– Rumi

Additional potential benefits, not guaranteed, but also not impossible.

• Knowing your roots is like having them.
• Change the world we cannot because we are the reason, but words can because they create it.
• Fighting the old doesn’t work.
• Trust your senses again.
• A fresh perspective is not a victory march.
• A great many new freedoms.
• Get things done for nothing but the sensation while doing them.
• Life no longer matters.
• Many decisions are already made.
• Simplify where simple begins, before it gets complicated.
• You cannot have empathy for other people’s words if you don’t have empathy for your words first.
• Choose your words well.
• Nothing changes, yet everything is different.
• The end of wishing without action.
• Do things that may have seemed impossible in the past.
• The end of regrets.
• More energy and time for the important.
• Certainty has gone but you know where to find it.
• Twelve months from now? I truly hope you’ll not even recognize what you’ve created.
• You don’t have to believe it, but it’s more fun when you do.
• Simplify your world without having to wait for the world to change first.
• Seven-league boots are an unfair advantage. But share it with the world, and the world will be a better place for it.