Why is studying
good?
Reading and studying
continuously are important
actions in our life, because it
enriches knowledge we have
conquered and it offers us
better conditions to perform our
work in different areas of
activity we execute.
That is not different when
working in spirit midst.
There are many reasons which
justify that thought.
The first fact is that in
general we forget part of what
we read or studied in the past.
Study persistence and good works
reading neutralize this
forgetfulness and it even helps
to avoid it.
The second reason is when a book
is read and it sees points
before ignored. A 16-young man
who reads The Spirit’s Book won’t
see in it suggestions or
approaches which he would elicit
for sure when rereading it at 40
years old. The same phenomenon
will happen when he reads it
back the same work at 60.
The third reason concerns to
circumstances in many different
subjects that time from time new
works with information and
analyse which are not found in
old publication. It is possible
to see it in spirit midst in the
books written by the mediation
of Divaldo P. Franco medium by
the spirit Manoel Philomeno de
Miranda, which enrich in a
notorious way what was known so
far about mediumship, obsession
and psychic disorders themes.
According to research released
by the National Endowment for
the Arts, an American
foundation dedicated to the
promotion of culture, those who
read regularly for pleasure have
a much more active and
successful life than those who
prefer to spend time watching TV
or devoting themselves to
activities that do not require
reasoning. For those who
cultivate the habit of reading -
concluded the research - life is
a succession of new experiences
and broadening horizons.
Professor of the University of
Virginia and author of Why
Read, Mark Edmundson states
that reading is the second
opportunity that life offers for
our personal growth. During
childhood and adolescence, he
says, we go through a process of
socialization and learn how to
act in accordance with common
sense. Then it is the reading
that allows us to develop our
own ideas, concepts and values.
Another research carried out by
a team of psychologists at York
University in Canada brought new
evidence to the importance of
reading and studying for
personal improvement. One of the
consequences of the habit of
reading and studying is,
according to the research's
conclusion, delaying the effects
of aging on the brain, a fact
that confirms something that
medical experts have been
teaching for some time, that is,
that exercising the mind by
reading helps to prevent
Alzheimer's disease, a
degenerative disease that
especially affects the elderly.
In the spirit milieu is known
the lesson transmitted by
Emmanuel in the issue in 204 of
the work The Comforter,
psychographed by the medium
Francisco Cândido Xavier:
"Feeling and wisdom are the two
wings with which the soul will
rise to infinite perfection. In
the narrow circle of the earth
orb, both are classified as
moral advancement and
intellectual advancement, but as
we are examining the values of
the world in particular, we must
recognize that both are
indispensable to progress, but
it is fair to consider the
superiority of the first on the
second, since the intellectual
part without morality can offer
numerous perspectives of fall,
in the repetition of the
experiences, whereas the moral
advance will never be excessive,
representing the most important
nucleus of the evolutionary
energies."
Note that wisdom is not acquired
without the habit of reading and
studying. Moreover, the
knowledge that we acquire
composes the luggage that
constitutes the true property of
the human being, as Pascal
(Spirit) clarifies in the text
below extracted from a message
that he wrote on the subject in
focus:
"Man only possesses in property
what he can take from this
world. From what he finds when
he arrives and leaves when
departs he enjoys it while here
he remains. Forced, however, he
is to abandon all this, it does
not have of his riches the real
possession, but, simply, the
usufruct. What then does he
possess? Nothing that is of use
of the body; all that is of use
of the soul: the intelligence,
the knowledge, the moral
qualities. This is what he
brings and carries with him,
which no one can take from him,
which will be of more use to him
in the next world than in this
world." (The Gospel according
to Spiritism, chapter XVI,
item 9.)
Translation:
Francine Prado - francine.cassia@hotmail.com
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