The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

December 31Temple Mind

I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of unseen powers. It needs not that I should ask the clairvoyant whether “a spirit-world projects into ours.” As to the specific evidence, I would not tarnish my mind by hasty reception. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open. Yet it were sin, if indolence or coldness excluded what had a claim to enter; and I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.

Margaret Fuller—Summer on the Lakes (1844)

You've likely heard the phrase “your body is a temple” more often than “your mind is a temple.”

The temple mind is the doorway to the temple body.

So, if the mind is the gateway to physical well-being and the doors are carelessly left wide open, we can't really expect to get what we want.

Carelessly left wide open is not the same as not being guarded about what information you consume—but filling your head up with cuddly affirmations will only go so far.

You've got to become the master and gatekeeper of your thoughts before you can change them.

You can hear something very negative about yourself and choose to believe it's the reason you never get what you want. Or you can withhold self-judgment and ...