Live your life

I think books are powerful things. This book I am going to quote from is a most brilliant piece of literary achievement. It is No. 6 of 11 books in a series by Terry Goodkind, called The Sword of Truth Series. The book is called Faith of The Fallen.

“Evil is not one large entity, but a collection of countless, small depravities brought up from the much by petty men. Living under the Order, you have traded the enrichment of vision for a Gray fog of mediocrity, – the fertile inspiration of striving and growth, for the mindless stagnation and slow decay – the brave new ground of the attempt, for the timid quagmire of apathy…You have traded freedom not even for a bowl of soup, but worse, for the spoken empty feeling of others who say that you deserve to have a full bowl of soup provided by someone else. Happiness, joy accomplishment, achievement…are not finite commodities, to be divided up. Is a child’s laughter to be divided up and allotted? No! Simply make more laughter!”
“Every persons life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can be and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life.”

Once again I am not going to explain the point here. I want you to read it and think for yourself. I can’t tell you how to live. Or how to think. But I can give you the means by which you can discover it. Enjoy.