Self Confidence
Poor man hesitates, looks and listens. Then he hears the call of
another brand of religion whose leader says:
"Stay out of the other camp or you'll go straight to hell! They only sprinkle water on your head, but we push you all the way under, thereby insuring you safe passage into the Land of Promise."
In the midst of sectarian claims and counter-claims Poor man becomes undecided. Not knowing whether to turn this way or that, he wonders which brand of religion offers the safest passage-way, until Hope vanishes.
"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went."
Always seeking but never finding - thus might be described man's struggle for Happiness and Contentment. He tries one religion after another, finally joining the "Big Church" which the world has named the "Damned."
His mind becomes an eternal question mark, searching hither and yon for an answer to the questions - "Whence and Whither?"
"The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes-or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's Dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two is gone."
Life is an everlasting question-mark!
That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the
future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our
power to DESIRE!
And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!
Fortunate is the young woman who learns this great truth and keeps
her lover always guessing, always on the defensive lest he may lose
her.
Our favorite author is a hero and a genius until we meet him in person and learn the sad truth that, after all, he is only a man.
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"How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him." EMERSON. |