If you read continually spiritual books with eagerness and diligence.
If you read continually spiritual books with eagerness and diligence, know that this continuous eagerness and diligence will open up your mind and will make it receptive to spiritual meanings. And what you did not succeed in understanding the first time you will easily understand when you read it two or three times.
For God, seeing your continuous diligence, will illumine your mind to understand even what is difficult.
- St Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
