Books. Myself. No! books

I use to think that books had all the answers...so I read everything I could find (and still didn't make a dent in the flurry of books we now have.) 

Then I learned that all the answers I was looking for were inside of me. 

And now I heard that books have all the answers.

I'm a tad confused. 

The reality is both are true. We do possess the ability to find most of the answers we need within. And books also have most of the answers cause, chances are, somebody, somewhere, has experienced what we're going through, learned from it, and wrote about it.

The problem is that neither are easy.

You might have to read a hundred book before you find the right answer. You might a hundred hours thinking or meditating on a problem and get nowhere. 

So we need both.