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“If a person handed over your body to some passer-by, you would be angry; do you feel no shame in handing over your mind to any reviser, to be confused and troubled by him?”
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What it means today

You would not let a stranger walk off with your body, but you let every passing opinion and stranger’s remark hijack your mind. The mind is the more precious thing.

Try this todayNotice one comment today that you let disturb your mind, and refuse to hand your mind over to it.
Today’s questionWhose opinion am I letting run my mind right now?
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