Against the dominant thinking of your friends

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. --Theodore H. White

Apply this to Paul in Acts 21, where, against the pleas of all his friends, he insists on listening to the Spirit and going on to Jerusalem, where imprisonment awaits him. Their thought was to save him; his only concern, to complete his mission.