We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.