Learning - FR. T. RONALD HANEY

A frind of ours forwarded us this insightful article:
One Minute Meditation
Learning – FR. T. RONALD HANEY

Are you a lifelong learner?
Are you a person who habitually takes a long and careful look beneath the skin of the world?
Or are you content to live on the surface, dwelling in the innovations of the past rather than trying to be an innovator in your present thinking?
Do you understand Mark Twain’s wry comment, “Education consists mainly in what I have unlearned”?
Do you enjoy discovering new facts, different points of view, unusual insights?
Or are you satisfied with what you already know and regard any new knowledge more a disturbance than an expansion of your mind and heart?
Is your foremost question; Am I a success or a failure?
Or do you ask yourself honestly Am I a learner or a non-learner?
Do you suffer from depression or paranoia or loneliness or anxiety or unreasonable suspicions about others because you have not adopted the attitude that the two ingredients of a healthy mind are yearning and learning?
Do you have a questioning mind? A critically thinking mind?
Or do you just sop up the propaganda that is offered to you with the sideshow extravaganzas of political brainwashing?
Do you want to come alive? To be enthusiastic? To have company when you are alone?
Then begin at once to use your God-given mind to be a lifelong learner. And let your heart follow where your learning leads.