Reaching a solution through the Spirit, it seems to me, leads us to
realize that because life and time are short, we will be able to read
only a few thousand books in our lifetime. When we pick any book, we
are ruling out hundreds and thousands of other books. How important it
is then, to choose time-proven great books that will foster the Holy
Spirit and enable us to rise to greater levels of truth and beauty and
insight and understanding and, hence, spirituality. Many great men and
women have found that a steady, systematic approach to literature has
enabled them to fill their beings, in a lifetime of good reading, with
the great thoughts of men and women of all ages, for through reading
great books we are put in touch with the great minds of all time, and
we become their spiritual and intellectual heirs.
