Oftentimes we hear of the need to have a sound and healthy mind and I think that this fact cannot be overflogged because the mind is the seat of sanity and an absence of a sound mind means the absence of a healthy mind. This spells doom, regardless of the angle we look at it from.

A clarification of what the mind truly is needs to be made before we venture further. What the mind is, is indeed a controversial discourse. The mind is not the brain though the mind works in the brain. The mind is man's consciousness. The mind works in the totality of our living and lively systems. Suffice to say that your mind is in every living cell in you; your essential intelligence.

The mind is intangible. It is not a physical thing. It is not hidden in the cranium of the skull though it operates in the grey matter, which the skull protects. The mind is the software that operates our entire hardware. Let me say that the mind is the software of the heart. When you think of the mind, do think in and of the abstract, never the concrete.

Your first wealth is a sound mind. Without a sound mind you are far from healthy and you are not able to put yourself together. You do not and cannot amount to much. One who lacks a sound and healthy mind has no gumption and is far from the ability to self-manage.