From the author: Sometimes, in order to change our life for the better and decide on something, a few lines or words are enough for us. I will be glad if in these few minutes you feel that your mood has improved! From birth, or maybe even in my mother’s belly, books were read to us. Growing up, we learned to read on our own. First, fairy tales and poems, the school curriculum. Then they explored their own tastes in literature and chose their favorite poets, writers, genres, as well as favorite books, which they re-read several times. The book has enormous power. More precisely the word. They can be supported, express a feeling, receive or give an answer, and cause pain. A book can save you. The word is of great value! The book stores words, transfers its power to the reader, and through his lips speaks to other people. It also educates and instills values ​​on the basis of which we build our goals. And, as you know, we use our resources to achieve our goals - conscious or not. Isn’t it exciting and simple at the same time? In parallel with this, the word gives rise to emotions and feelings in us, which in turn affect bodily processes and sensations that create our mood. What is your mood now? Would you like to dedicate time to yourself, put aside the hustle and bustle of the day for a few minutes and reflect, or simply improve your energy levels and mood in general? Learn something new or important? I bring to your attention an excerpt from the book that is complete in content, which is undoubtedly worthy of attention and time. After reading, you can reflect on the essence of the proposed passage from the work. What is he talking about? What does the author teach, what idea did the author want to convey? What conclusion can be drawn from it? Would you like to take advantage of what is possible, realized in these few minutes? I am sure you will be amazed at how useful Bibliotherapy can be - a science aimed at developing in a person the skills and abilities to withstand extraordinary situations, strengthen willpower, and increase the intellectual and educational level (the definition of Bibliotherapy is taken from the book by Yu. Drescher). I wish you pleasant reading! Likhachev D.S. “Letters about goodness” Third letter. The biggest and what is the biggest goal of life? I think: increase the goodness in those around us. And goodness is, first of all, the happiness of other people. It consists of many things, and every time life presents a person with a task that is important to be able to solve. You can do good to a person in small things, you can think about big things, but small things and big things cannot be separated. Much, as I already said, begins with little things, originates in childhood and among loved ones. A child loves his mother and his father, brothers and sisters, his family, his home. Gradually expanding, his affections extend to school, village, city, the whole country. And this is a very big and deep feeling, although one cannot stop there and one must love the person in a person. One must be a patriot, not a nationalist. You can’t, there’s no need to hate someone else’s family because you love your own. There is no need to hate other nations because you are a patriot. There is a deep difference between patriotism and nationalism. In the first - love for one’s country, in the second - hatred of all others. The great goal of good begins small - with the desire for good for one’s loved ones, but as it expands, it covers an ever wider range of issues. It’s like ripples on the water. But the circles on the water, expanding, are becoming weaker. Love and friendship, growing and spreading to many things, gain new strength, become higher, and man, their center, becomes wiser. Love should not be unaccountable, it should be smart. This means that it must be combined with the ability to notice shortcomings and fight shortcomings - both in a loved one and in the people around them. It must be combined with wisdom, with the ability to separate the necessary from the empty and false. She shouldn't be blind. Blind admiration (you can't even call it love) can lead to terrible.