On Reading Books

Writing is a way to share what is inside us, ideas, feeling, thoughts.

I tend to buy and read many books, which I know is not good.

My attention tends to be scattered to this or that books, never learning deeply about what each book, each man is saying.

I have to remember that A book is a man. I communicate with the author while reading a book. It does not only consists of words, but the author's heart, idea, and life. The communication should be deep, not shallow.

This level of communication can be practiced through reading, and applied to real life.

Go beyond the threshold, what I can see, or what he says. The author is describing what he is passionate about through writing at that moment.

Writing is a great way to express oneself from our heart.

Therefore, reading is a direct communication with the author with heart to heart.

Pay attention to everything. Understand the author.

The goal of reading is to understand the author and to become one, internalize their teaching, mastering it.

Therefore, stay in limited number of books or authors until mastering them. To master books, actions are needed until these ideas and teachings become habits.

"Reading many books is a distraction." Seneca

I do not like categorizing books like self-help books, novels, essays, love romance, and so on. They are born from life experience from life.

It is like judging the author through categorizing. It is useful to organize ideas, but sometimes very distracting.

Here is an advice from Seneca about reading!