Why are we all such sheep?
Life is beset with temptations on every hand and it is a challenge to our inner strength to combat these temptations in life. Often we are tempted by our friends and family to eat more than is needed and too to eat things that are detrimental to our health. This is also true, of course, of drinking and of keeping late hours.
Life really is a simple process of living, and we do not need the luxuries so many have become accustomed to having. Our appetites are whetted by false hunger for sweets and for stimulants that are really not good for us.
Then too, there are other temptations along life’s pathway such as the temptation to ride everywhere instead of walking. We need the exercise of walking for our muscles. The oxygen is also necessary for our lungs -- to cleanse and to revitalize them, but we are always tempted to take the easy ways of living though they are often doing us a great deal of harm.
We are tempted too to buy things simply because someone else has them. We cannot be different, our lives must be in conformation to all other lives. The way of these times seems to be that all must be sheep and follow the leaders, not thinking as individuals, not expressing the true self within, but falling into the pattern of thought set by others and never daring to express an opinion that would upset the applecart, so to speak.
Why are we all such sheep? Is it because we all tend to think alike? No, it is because we hold fear within. We enshrine fear because we fear that if we expressed our true thoughts we would be unpopular, we would be shunned by society as extremists and be thought queer. How much better it would be if we did this and then had the wonderful freedom of healthful peace within, and the knowledge that those who accept us then as friends are tried and true and themselves capable of greater things in life.
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