A challenge to sharpen one’s mind
Posted by kidglove on July 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment
One of the quotes that interest me comes from a novelist and poet, Josiah Gilbert Holland. He said, “The mind grows by what it feeds on.” Our minds our always hungry for quality food but we sometimes feed them with “garbageâ€. Just like the human body, we feel energetic by the food we take such as foods rich in protein, carbohydrates, minerals, etc. This may indirectly affect our mind with the quality of food we take.
However, the influence in our surrounding greatly affects the way we think and the way we perceive things. This influence in the surrounding may be the “food†we feed to our mind. According to Catherine Pulsifer, a life coach, “One of my major concerns today is that a lot of people feed their mind with television. Television is like the fast food industry. I am not saying we can’t learn from television, but the majority of what is on television is not of educational value or will not positively influence our thoughts. We increasingly judge our success and personal worth by television stories – stories of the rich and famous, those who have beauty and the perfect body, those who do little work and still succeed. Yet, this is not reality. You can lose your job, you can lose material items, but you can never lose your knowledge. The money and time we invest in ourselves to further increase our knowledge is truly an investment in our future….â€
I agree with her that those things will not positively influence our thoughts. This can be a reason why we have a lot of negative feelings, bitterness, complaints, dissatisfactions, and feeling of unfairness to others to the extent that we fail to recognize small things, which may have great value to others. This could be one reason why it is difficult to feel the inner peace within us.
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