It seems that our pets are eager to please us, to the point of understanding when they are not supposed to hurt animals which used to be thought of as natural enemies — i.e., dogs and cats, or cats and birds, et cetera. When talking to a friend about this, we realized that if we don’t tell our dogs (and/or cats) these things, they don’t know them and blindly go about being reactionary and, perhaps, mean. I know, I know, this may sound silly. But let’s experiment with this in our daily life. Perhaps people are the same way and simply act the way they think of as “normal”: being prejudiced against those unlike themselves, loving money more than people, thinking there is something weak in admitting wrongdoing and apologizing. Let’s take a stand today for higher, deeper thought. Or maybe we should just remember to think rather than react. I believe I’ll paste that word on my mirror, refrigerator, and computer screen: Think!
“The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page vii: 13-17
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