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The idea about the mind being a mirror really sparked my thoughts and made me want to look deeper into this metaphor.  Hyde says that in his youth, his mind was a mirror, yet as he grew older, it became scratched and stopped reflecting images.  As a child, humans do as they see.  Their minds are mirrors that simply reflect what they see in the world back out.  But as one grows older, they begin to become more tainted by the many different paths of life.  Though everyone starts out as a blank slate during their childhood, all the influences in life shape and create all the different people in the world.  Each of these scratches on the mirror cause images to be skewed from normal and eventually from there to be a lack of an image whatsoever.  At this point, that person’s mind cannot be shaped any further.  As Hyde says, “A mirror scratched reflects no image- And this is the silence of wisdom”.  He is saying that only when you get past all the outside influence can you actually achieve wisdom.  Your mind has been shaped the way it will be forever and once one’s mind is completely unscathed by outside influence is when they achieve true wisdom.