The subtlety of a thought is meant for the subtlety of understanding.
Not every thought can be taken by storm.
There are things that do not open to someone who barges in wearing the boots of a ready-made opinion, carrying the ruler of everyday logic and the hammer of “come on, it’s all simple.”
No, not everything is simple.
Sometimes a thought needs silence.
Sometimes — inner delicacy.
Sometimes — the ability not to seize meaning by the throat at once, but to stand beside it and let it appear.
Coarse understanding always wants to simplify.
Subtle understanding knows how to wait.
It does not hurry to declare the incomprehensible foolish.
It does not turn a paradox into a mistake.
It does not demand that depth immediately lie in the palm like change at a shop counter.
A subtle thought is not hiding from a person.
It is simply not obliged to become coarse so that it can be noticed.
And therefore sometimes the matter is not that the reasoning is too complex.
Sometimes the matter is that the listener came to it too loudly...
