The Archer

by Paulo Coelho

“You have skill, dignity, and posture,” said Tetsuya. “You have a good grasp of technique and you have mastered the bow, but you have not mastered your mind. You know how to shoot when all the circumstances are favorable, but if you are on dangerous ground, you cannot hit the target. The archer cannot always choose the battlefield,

In the same way, the student learning to read reaches a point when he frees himself from the individual letters and begins to make words out of them. However, if the words were all run together, they would make no sense at all or would make understanding extremely hard; there have to be spaces between the words.