Archive for October, 2009

Don’t read anything if you don’t want to read. Don’t read for entertainment because it’ll dull your mind and make you used to the idea of reading just to read. It will set grooves in your mind, patterns that will repeat over and over to same purpose– nothing.
Don’t read for knowledge. Knowledge is just useless. Some people try to make a distinctions between knowledge and information or data. I’m telling you that it’s all clutter. There is no point in thinking about things if it doesn’t eventually lead to action, right?
There is only one reason to read, and if you are not reading for that reason, you’re training your mind to become more and more useless over time.
The ability to read is something that we have that is pure solid gold. It is our ability to take the life experiences of other human beings and fold them into our own. It is the way we can lead many lives and have minds that span generations. If you are not reading for this purpose then you should put down this book and any other book and go out and live your life, experience reality. Come back when you’re ready to immediately put what you read into action, when you are ready to make this your reality. You have to become this, you have to make this a conversation between two lives so that you can go out and live more. Why spend your time doing anything more? If you can’t immediately live these words, then they are just words, and words are just letters, which are useless.