Our mental atmosphere can be polluted to a grievous extent. "You have standards about automobile emissions," the mystics would say, "to protect the purity of the air. Don't you think you should have equally stringent standards about polluting the mental atmosphere with negative thoughts?"

Eknath Easwaran in To Love Is to Know Me by Eknath Easwaran

 

To Practice This Thought:
Pay attention to your negative thoughts — are they polluting your atmosphere?

 

Sign up to receive the Spiritual Practice of the Day by email.