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Mind Is The Dwelling Place of the Devil
It is usual for a man to start reading anything that comes handy to him when he has no other work to do. He may even try to read from a waste paper or a scrap of newspaper thrown away after use when he has no one else to talk to. The kind of mind that man has got is such that if you do not give good, nutritious food to him he will be inclined towards eating junk. If he does not get to see something good, to speak something good, to hear something good or to do something good, then, he will indulge in seeing or speaking or hearing or thinking even the most undesirable things.
It is for this reason that the addage "An idle mind is devil's house" has gained currency.
Realising this characteristic of our mind, we should never leave our mind idle but we should always have something good to speak, something good to hear and something good to think of.
How did the Psyciatrist get rid of his pride ?
The American writer has mentioned that when he read only one page of the Bible as he had nothing else to do, low and behold, a micaculous thought dawned in his mind, instantly. He realised that what he had read in that single page of the Bible was precisely the kind of advice that he had been giving to his patients all the time. Then he read another page of the Bible and found similar advice. Thus, as he went on turning page after page of the Bible, he saw that the tips and bits of advice that he used to give to his patients as his
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