/lit/ - Literature

What is the purpose of self development through reading and understanding things throughout your life if not attaining the true knowledge that transcends ages, schools, movements and genres? That sort of final truth that in bits and little hints enriches the wisdom of great thinkers from Socrates to Schopenhauer, but it was never fully attained except perhaps by some of the figures nowadays considered to be holy or gods, like Pythagoras or Parmenides in their time.

Which one of you is consciously on the path of discovery, realization of nature of reality and experiences that border with/are spiritual? I hope you're not reading and understanding things to appear smart, but to at the very least be the best version of you that you can be.

I know that literature can help attain some of wisdom and provoke us to think, but our own figuring out of some things is far more valuable. Reading about things too much is just like reading a manual on how to ride a bike, but never doing it. Knowing things for real is riding a bike. Truth has never been more out in the open to those opened to it and its never been more arcane and hidden to those seeking it at the wrong places.

Enlightenment is but the first step.

Now sit your ass down and look at the wall, son.