CONFIDENCE a truth or stage

As we look around at your fellow human beings, we will find it hard to ignore the fact that very few people are happy, fulfilled and leading purposeful lives. Most of them seem unable to cope with their problems and the circumstances of daily living.

The majority, settling for the average, have resigned themselves to “just getting by.”
I believe no resignation to mediocrity has become a way of life. As a result, feelings of inadequacy cause them, quite humanly, to blame environment, society, people, circumstances, and surrounding conditions for their failures and disappointments. The idea that people and things control their lives is so thoroughly included in our thinking that we normally will not respond to
logical arguments that prove otherwise.

The actual truth that we are not victims, but co-creators in the building of our lives
and the world around us. Or, as another great sage puts it, “We aren’t what we think we are, but what we think, we are!”

A lesson that has taken us far too long to learn is that the opposite of bravery is not cowardliness, but conformity. You may have spent valuable, irreplaceable years trying to fit into the parade only to learn, too late, that you will never fit it. What makes us follow each other like sheep? It is because we are trying to conform to the majority. Juts think what have we done in say past 4-5 months to change our so called regular life.

It’s time to break out of this sheep state of mind and stop punishing ourselves because we are different from our family, friends or anyone else for that matter. Much of our suffering can be eliminated if we refuse to let our life be marred by conformity.

To think that our life is controlled in any way by another individual, group, or society imposes a condition of mental slavery which makes us a prisoner by our own decree.