Many search for a benefit from a word…
If they do not read it or hear it they feel that they have not benefited!!
The wise person sees a word of benefit in everything.
Even in the silence of others, he sees benefit and wisdom… He might benefit from their silence more than he benefits from their talk.
Every incident you experience in life, your life or the life of others, holds a word of benefit for you… Therefore, many benefit from incidents more than they benefit from books, articles or talks…
Life experience is also full of countless words of benefit, for the one who knows how to benefit from such experience.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, WORDS OF SPIRITUAL BENEFIT VOL. II