I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness
Interpretation
Our minds hold beliefs and values that shape our lives; we should fill them with positive and meaningful things.
This quote emphasizes the importance of what we choose to fill our minds with, likening our thoughts to a cupboard that can be stocked with nurturing and uplifting items. By consciously choosing to fill our 'cupboards' with elements like faith, love, and kindness, we not only fortify ourselves but also contribute to the well-being of those around us and strengthen our connection to a higher purpose.
In practice
During a family discussion about values, you can use this quote to highlight the importance of filling our minds with positivity.
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.
I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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