Why ambiguity?: Finding meaning

Three books informed this post: Moby Dick, King Lear and A Whaler's Dictionary "In order to understand the fool, one must think and discover, as one does with a sphinx's question, for oneself. The fool makes one responsible for one's own interpretation... by speaking one thing only in order to mean something else." - Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler's Dictionary In King Lear the fool is the wisest character. He says the truth beneath things and shows that the man who is supposed to be the real wise man, the king, is actually the biggest fool. That is not the point, however. Poetry and literature is purposefully ambiguous. Intentionally avoiding stating their intended meaning. Some say this is needlessly complex. If the writer has a meaning or has something important to say, why would they hide it behind fiction and overly descriptive riddles? If it is so important, why not just tell it straight? Truth, meaning and understanding come through experience. We cannot experience the same thing that the writer or poet or artist has experienced, but by working through and understanding a writer's work, or our interpretation of that work, we have gained some experience. Finding the meaning, whether it was intended or not, is the point. The act of discovering truth in literature has the effect of discovering your own process of thinking. Ambiguity is a puzzle, but as you find each piece, you discover that you are part of the puzzle as well. Every book you read and interpret, every poem, painting, photograph, landscape, word and relationship become part of you and the puzzle.

Shakespeare, p.1, All the world's a stage, or Emotion is of the Heart, Mind, and Soul

"All the world's a stage,/and the men and women merely players"

Does this mean that we are all merely playing at life? Is Shakespeare saying that we aren't really living, but acting out emotions?

Maybe only some people do this. It seems that some react to life based on emotion. Avoiding unpleasant things because it makes them feel bad, or pursuing pleasure for the sake of feeling good. For instance, a guy not asking a girl out because he is afraid of rejection, or having sex as often as possible for the pleasure. Is that really living through emotion though?

In the case of a guy not asking a girl out it is clear that he is forsaking something possibly great for the feeling of comfort and stability. Instead of pursuing something, he is doing nothing. Is that living based on emotion?

Someone who has sex for pleasure is pursuing a pleasurable feeling, but not the possibly greater feeling of being truly close to someone. So, emotion is separate from sensory pleasure.

Emotion comes from emovere, which is Latin for out (ex) move (movere). Emotion is outward movement, but from where?

Is emotion more than a mental and physical process then? It can, of course, be tracked and measured in the brain, but that only answers how emotion exists. Not why. Is emotion more than just feeling good, or feeling sad, or feeling angry, or feeling at all? Maybe emotion goes beyond even the mind, and comes also from the soul.

So, does emotion come from God?