Denying yourself the experience of reading is like denying yourself the possibility of a truly joyous and powerful life. Maybe there ARE indeed leaders who have not been readers... but I don't know of any such who have greatly inspired me. Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, Marcus Garvey, - these are leaders who set the world on fire through the power of their words.
They never pretended that their words were created somewhere inside their bodies and pushed out into the world on demand. No - they were readers. They allowed themselves to be receptacles for ideas in the form of many books.
They allowed those ideas to so move and change and empower and embolden them that their 'receptacles' overflowed. The combination of ideas of so many brilliant men and women who have gone before them, with their own deep introspection, caused a chemical reaction that transformed them into living embodiments of 'the word' and they became 'lights' unto the world.
I believe in our own way, we are all lights unto the world. We all just need to plug in now. I believe that some ways to do this are: prayer, meditation and of course reading.
Michael Holgate
Today's quote:
"We were not created to be eaten by anxiety,
but to walk erect, free,
unafraid in a world where there is work to do,
truth to seek, love to give and win."
Joseph Ford NewtonAuthor
Joseph Ford NewtonAuthor
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