Society doesn’t want thinking men who arrive at their own convictions. It wants servants who do as they are told. People prefer their society to do their thinking for them. It’s easier. It takes away the need to make moral choices. It leaves nothing but the simple obligation to obey.“Reverence for life” is the most fundamental trait of awareness, one you share in common with all living creatures. …. The thinking man looks into his heart and he recognizes this truth: I am life which wills to live in the midst of life which wills to live. Life is everywhere. It creeps, it flies, it writes symphonies, it builds cathedrals, but most of all, it wills to live and go on living. The thinking man gives every life the same reverence that he gives his own.Reverence is a state of mind, not a set of rules. All it requires is everything be done in deep awareness. Good is whatever promotes life. Evil is whatever destroys it. From there, you make your own decisions.