I haven't read six books in this short of time since... I don't even remember when. Which, is a tragedy. books are beautiful, and after falling upon this quote, I can't help but love them even more so.
"Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
Each book I have read has offered divine and sweet wisdom, in which I had not even unearthed my deep longing for. Each of them, something different. Each of them, something perfect.
My titles thus far include:
1.Eat Pray Love- Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Prayer- Various gospel teachers
3. Broken Things to Mend - Elder Holland
4. 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens- Sean Covey
5. Crime & Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Bonds That Make Us Free- C. Terry Warner
I'm currently still fascinated by the last two.. Which is half the reason for this post.
Yesterday I picked up Warner's book, and couldn't put it down. Its about yourself. Its about freeing your mind, so that you can become a better part of humanity. Its about change entering through your heart, and shining through every part of YOU. The opening of the preface quotes, "People can change fundamentally--in their hearts and not just in their outward behaviour...The possibility of overcoming very deep personal and interpersonal problems lies within the power of each of us."
Seducing, right?
now check out a part I read last night:
" FABLE: When we're stuck in troubled feelings, we believe that all our feelings are true--that is to say, we believe that by our emotions at that moment we are making accurate judgments and what's happening. If I'm angry with you, I'm certain that you are making me angry.
FACT: Though we truly have these feelings, they are not necessarily true feelings. More likely I'm angry because I'm misusing you, not because you are misusing me. "
talk about WOW. but, wait.. there's more. going on a couple pages you'll find this:
"In that moment a choice lay clearly before me. I could spend my life assembling, feeding, and protecting the egotistical, ravenous, and addictive fiction I called my self - or I could refuse it every sort of nurture and let it die an regretted death. I knew that unless i somehow could leave off my project of promoting and protecting myself and instead open myself to life, I wouldn't be doomed to a lifetime of self-involvement. I could see that self-absorption is poison to the spirit."
Right there, he played out the foundations of my future. I can either stagger on being selfish, ruthless, uninvolved, lost, and hated. or I can finally starve these demons and walk erect with passions and devotions that embrace the basics of humanity. I do not want to be found wounding another, simply because I do not fully understand my own self. This doesn't take much. In fact, the beauty is, it takes less.
This book is filled with obvious truths. Its large and in charge, or else I would quote the whole thing. but better yet, I recommend you go pick it up yourself. You won't regret it. I'm 100% positive it could help all of us become a little better, a little happier, and a little more aware.
READ ON!
