Saturday, August 31, 2013

One More From the Mahatma

It's a short day today. When asked how he kept physically fit Gandhi gave the expected responses which dealt with eating,drinking,sleeping and the avoidance of pharmaceuticals. Then he added one more thing that ties into the whole mind/body connection:

"it (physical and mental health),is due to the practice of detachment of mind. By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not,so long as your motive is pure,your means correct. Really,it means that things will come right in the end if you take care of the means and leave the rest to Him."

For those who don't believe in a personal God, you can substitute higher power,fate,whatever,for the above Him that Gandhi uses.

Gandhi--a deep thinker--closes with this--"I attach greater importance to the mental. What you think you become. Thought is never complete unless it finds expression in action and action limits your thought. It is only when there is a perfect accord between the two that there is full,natural life.
I don't know about you but I find it all incredibly profound.

A heavy work day to day--stretching before after and during.

What have you got planned?

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