How to return to reading books

It is not that you can no longer read. It is that your attention has grown used to fast stimuli, short sentences, and constant shifts. Reading nurtures depth. It teaches you to stay with something, to think more calmly, and not to live solely off fast impressions. It is a simple way to care for your intellect. Silence and slow reading retrain a valuable capacity: remaining attentive. That same capacity sustains study, relationships, and interior life.