The only right way

Once I was talking to a great lover of reading, who had read a lot of books. There was hardly a famous writer whose works he did not know. I asked him the question, "What have you learned from literature?" He hesitated, there was a pause, then a short answer: "Nothing, exactly nothing". We began to discuss and concluded that every writer tries to understand life. That is, each writer offers a different vision of the truth. Each writer sees in his way the concepts of good, evil, morality, and the laws by which everyone should live. Each offers his or her vision of the meaning of life, each tries to understand life for himself or herself. All of them do not have unambiguous, clear-cut answers. They have different versions, which contradict the version of another, no less outstanding writer. But what is the greatness of all these outstanding people? The fact that they have never understood anything? In any case, one of them is wrong, because there are no two truths. So in a conversation with my friend, he told me that he had spent half his life, an enormous amount of strength and energy, studying all those tons of books. Now, looking back, he said that he does not understand where he got so much desire and energy to study and delve into all this for eight, ten hours a day.

What was the point of our conversation? He said that he did not regret the time he had spent. On the contrary, he had come to ideal, exhaustive conclusions that freed him once and for all from false ideals and the captivity of human thought. We finally agreed that neither philosophy, nor literature, nor wise men, scientists, or anyone else has the answers to the elementary but most important questions. None of them knows what the soul is, who we are, where we come from, where we are going, how we should live, what our happiness is, what is good, what is bad, what is death, what is after death, they know nothing at all. So what is their greatness? If their greatness is that they have spent their whole lives searching for answers and have not found them, then I would agree. Or maybe they are considered great because those around them think they are great? That's more likely. But none of these greats know absolutely nothing about the nature and essence of the soul, the laws of the Universe, none of them, least of all Robert Kiyosaki. Besides, none of them even came close to figuring it out. The problem is not that all writers are so stupid and some are smart, no. The problem is that even if they were a thousand times smarter and tried for millions of years, they would still not be able to comprehend with their minds what is beyond the mind, beyond the human mind, beyond the material world, beyond our universe. All that people and writers can have are opinions, but no reliable knowledge about the soul, death, and the meaning of life. It turns out that we spend a lot of time with the opinions of people, ordinary people, and mortals like any of us.

So why do we read so much and study so much? School, then university more. Tons of information, thousands of books. Great names and the desire to study their works. However, there is very little useful knowledge in these works. And why do you need knowledge if it will never be useful to you in your life, or if it will be useful, but it will not benefit you or society? If we understand which science and which knowledge has the greatest and most useful impact on our lives and the world around us, then we will understand which knowledge is most useful and paramount to study. So the greatest influence on us and the world around us is only the Source, the Creator of everything. So what kind of knowledge are you seeking, who or what do you want to know about? There is no knowledge more useful and important than the knowledge of our Creator. His Word — the Scriptures — is the most precious thing that mankind has. I am not saying that other knowledge is not needed, only that it must be secondary, but also applicable to life, otherwise what is it for?

Every education begins with the ability to read and write. These are the basic skills of a modern person. Reading is a basic, fundamental tool for self-education, on par with communication. It must be used to acquire a sharp mind capable of always seeing the truth, of discerning what is right and what is wrong.