“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
“To defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
“The average worker reads an average of less than one book a year and works an average of 37.5 hrs per week. This same person makes 319 times less $$$ than the top US CEOs, who claim to read more than 60 books a year.”