What Thoughts Dye Your Soul?

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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts~~Marcus Aurelius.

After seeing the quote last night, my mind, though tired, was ready to write but my body didn't even care...Haha, I ended up dozing off. And this brings us to our thoughts.

As humans, from my perspective, whatever we feed our mind ends up being accumulated by the body and seeps right into our soul. Words are powerful whether when spoken or thought. They affect our actions in life.

Biologically speaking from what I have observed in humans, our body excretes the emotion we give to it. If our thought is a sad one, it ends up affecting our daily activities, and if we allow these thoughts to be habitual, it molds our characters and our spirit walks with them by transforming them into our daily lives.

There is a colleague of mine whose face always looks angry and I am asked if she smiles at all. But no one believes she does even when I know I have seen her smiles.

This is why we need to be careful about what becomes habitual in our life, especially when it has to deal with our thoughts. Think of something beautiful. Just like I do whenever I am not feeling good. I have made it a habit to be cheerful when things don't go my way and find something else worth doing. Since I have made it habitual, I always end up seeing things the other way around and this has molded my character and dyed my soul into taking it into action.

The picture used above tallies the quote. The folded hand serves as our thoughts and the other hand serves as the receiver(Our soul). However the hand decides to fold itself, such will the soul bends to its will. It is like a dye used daily on a cloth. The more it is used(habitual), the more the cloth(soul) absorbs it(gets dyed), and it gives out the physical appearance expected(character).

This is why most of our childhood characters stick with us because they grew up with us and have become a habit. They molded our characters and then we acted.

Growing up, I have this habit that has stuck with me and this is the habit of "not pretending to like someone". Whenever I am met with people whose actions don't sit well with me, I act out subconsciously. I make them know I don't like certain parts of their character and sometimes I wish I could control this but It has dyed my soul so deeply that I am stuck with it and I have come to terms with it.


This is my response to galenkp@galenkp Weekend-Engagement Concept.


Image used is mine.

Still yours truly,
Balikis.

Thanks for reading.

Peace be unto those who crave it and more to those who chase it away.

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