Try to encourage someone to understand or learn something that would be helpful to them when they just don’t care or won’t listen. Pretty frustrating, right?
One of my students shared a story of her cousin who was very unhappy with his life because he was making decisions that led to negative consequences. She encouraged him to read the scriptures and pray so he could find answers on how to resolve his unhappiness. He refused to do it, wouldn’t make any effort, and consequently his unhappiness continued and deepened.
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” The original quote from 1546 by John Heywood is “A man maie well bring a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will.” Human nature hasn’t changed even after all these years.
Nephi taught his people “in plainness, even as plain as word can be” and some still refused to understand, or even try.
If you want knowledge then search for it. Seek to understand. Make the effort. Or be ignorant.
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