This was the question a pupil once asked his Master.
The Master did not answer at that moment. After a few days, however, while he and the young pupil were sitting near a river, he said he was thirsty and asked the boy to get him some water using an old dirty sieve that was there on the ground.
The student started, because he knew it was a request without any logic.
However, he could not contradict his Master and, having taken the sieve, he began to carry out this absurd task. Every time he dipped the sieve into the river to bring up some water to take to his Master, he could not even take a step towards him that not even a drop was left in the sieve.
He tried and tried dozens of times but, as much as he tried to run faster from the shore to his Master, the water continued to pass through all the holes in the sieve and was lost along the way.
Exhausted, he sat down next to the Master and said: ''I can't get water with that sieve. Forgive me Master, it is impossible and I have failed in my task.''
“No - answered the old man smiling - you have not failed. Look at the sieve, it's like new now. The water, filtering from its holes has cleaned it up "
"When you read books - continued the old Master - you are like a sieve and they are like river water"
"It doesn't matter if you can't keep in your memory all the water that they let flow in you, because books, however, with their ideas, emotions, feelings, knowledge, the truth that you will find among the pages, they will cleanse your mind and spirit, and make you a better and renewed person. This is the purpose of the reading ".
Happy reading everyone ...
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