Parable - a small story, carrying any lesson.
Proverbs useful to re-read - remember those important things which began to forget, but it is sometimes useful to tell a parable, and - through it much easier to convey the idea than any arguments. East - a delicate matter ... In the East, mind and intellect are valued more than intuition and imagination. But it is fantasy and unreality are making a kind of charm in the eastern parables. That's why a lot of meaning embedded in the eastern countries of the parables, and in order to understand the essence, they often have to re-read several times.