The Heart Of Fools In Ecclesiastes, By King Solomon

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Each individual life is a process of discovery. ‘Ecclesiastes, chapter 7’; a book in the Old Testament written by King Solomon thoroughly explores the dynamics of the process of discovery and human reactions. “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.” The symbolic riddle reinforces the importance of having a willingness and openness to the experimentation and the wisdom that comes with it. In this case the fools did not have an open mind to face something considered confronting; where as the wise

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