You are what you read

Shakespeare & Co, Paris

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and meditating to the spirit, it builds and strengthens you little by little.

You become what you read and, you may not consciously realize it, but fragments of what you read in your infancy or as a teenager are now crystallized parts of your soul.

In today's reading list there are the seeds of your future self.

This blog is about creating and shaping your life, your mind and your soul through reading.

Neuroscience shows that our thoughts are actually constantly molding our brain and therefore who we are. Reading reshapes our thougths and therefore we actually and physically are what we read.

So we read ... in order to live!