Self-control and self-discipline are important. In this age filled with constant attention grabbers and distractions along with pop culture's constant commercial thrust to indulge our every passion, you have to be able to ...
If we turned our heads every time a TV in a room said, "Look at me!" or a billboard on a highway said, "Look here!" or the phone rings, or the clock says the time is.... (on and on)--then we are no more functioning human beings than Pavlov's dog that salivates at the ring of a bell.
If our lives are directed by the wants and the demands that thrust upon us either from our external environment or our internal passions, then in the irony of seeking the freedom to do what we want, we instead do what we are genetically or culturally TRAINED to do!
FREEDOM IS LOST.
AND INSTEAD OF FINDING THAT WE HAVE LIVED OUR LIVES, WE FIND THAT IT HAS BEEN LIVED FOR US.
Mitch Sanders
April 16, 2002
DO WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO DO
If we slept whenever we felt, ate anything that tasted good at the moment, said whatever popped into our minds, indulged every sensual and sexual titillation, we waste our lives in trivial satisfactions that soon undermines our whole existence and the joy that can be found in being fully human.
If our lives are directed by the wants and the demands that thrust upon us either from our external environment or our internal passions, then in the irony of seeking the freedom to do what we want, we instead do what we are genetically or culturally TRAINED to do!
FREEDOM IS LOST.
AND INSTEAD OF FINDING THAT WE HAVE LIVED OUR LIVES, WE FIND THAT IT HAS BEEN LIVED FOR US.
Mitch Sanders
April 16, 2002
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