The Sublime Art of Cultivating a Beautiful Mind

On the phenomenal power of our thoughts, weedy gardens, and the energy of the immaterial.

Despite the latest findings of neuroscience and psychology in the last decades, we’ve not even come close to solving the mystery of how our brain and mind exactly work. At the same time, we’re aware — some more so than others — of the sheer power of our thoughts with regard to their impact on the quality of our health and human relationships, the level of our vital energy, and the equilibrium of our spiritual identity.

A thought is something we can’t see. We can’t measure it, nor touch it. Nevertheless, we tend to label our thoughts negative or positive, not based on one “Universal Code of a Human Mind” but on how they make us feel and what we’ve been taught is right, or rather wrong, to fill our heads with.

One thing we know for sure, though: While people can steal our ideas, they can’t steal our thoughts.

Your thoughts are only yours. They may connect you to God or to some other higher force that controls creation and destruction within the universe. They connect you to nature and all the living things in it. But they can’t be taken away from you. Only you choose which thought to keep and which one to let go. Only you can shape your life…