We Don’t Need To Read Another Self-Help Book.

So Why Do We Keep Reading Them?

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A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

How many self-help books have we read and how many more are on our wishlists to read? I have read hundreds, literally hundreds, and I have so many more that I’d like to read. Why? What is it exactly that I am searching for, the holy grail?

History.com states that “the search for the grail became the holiest of quests as it signified the pursuit of union with God”. Is this why we have an unquenched thirst for information, leading us to the attainment of enlightenment? What is enlightenment, anyway, spiritual alchemy?

Many, many years ago, I studied the philosophical Enlightenment period of the 17th and 18th centuries; I understood this to be a time of science and reason. This new emerging movement was radically overhauling myths and superstition — it was out with the old and in with the new.

This reflects me, and I suspect many others who are on a lifelong quest to enhance who they are so they may live their lives to their fullest potential. To me, enlightenment equates to becoming awake, to not be accepting of playing small. If it is spiritual…