Books !!

I think we must read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us feel good? 

 Lord,  would we feel good precisely if we had no books?

  The  books that makes us feel good about ourselves , which makes us feel exclusive stating that they are solely made for us.( Thinking has no limits)

   But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. 

A good book shows us our obstacles and addictions – it breaks our hearts open so that new light can get in. 

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us..