“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.”
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If you bend your body into a sitting position everyday for a long enough period of time, the curvature of your spine changes. A doctor can tell from a radiograph (or an autopsy) whether someone sat at a desk for a living. If you shove your feet into tiny, narrow dress shoes each day, your feet begin to take on that form as well.
The same is true for mind. If you hold a perpetually negative outlook, soon enough everything you encounter will seem negative. Close it off and you’ll become closed-minded. Color it with the wrong thoughts and your life will be dyed the same.
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