What do people mean when they say IDLE THOUGHTS COME FROM IDLE MINDS?

Answer 1

When you have to much time on your hands its east to regress if you keep busy you wont have time for negative thinking. My worst times come when alone and bored

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Robert Fulghum wrote It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It. He included this true anecdote. I love it. I hope you do, too. Just to set the story, Fulghum is a younger man, studying Greek language and culture in Greece for the summer. Alexander Papderos had founded an institute devoted to healing the wounds of war on the island of Crete. At the end of a two-week conference, Dr. Papaderos asked, "Are there any questions?" And Fulghum, half-jokingly, asked, "What is the meaning of life?" Papaderos said, "I will answer your question," pulled a small round mirror out of his wallet, and said these words, which touched me deeply again after reading my friend's post. These are Fulghum's best remembrance of Papaderos' words: "When I was a small child, living during the war [WWII], we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place. "I tried to find all the pieces and put them back together, but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece. This one. And by scratching it on a stone I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy, and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine - in deep holes and crevices and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find. "I kept the little mirror, and as I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of the light. But light - truth, understanding, knowledge - is there, and it will shine in many dark places if I reflect it. "I am only a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life." And then he took out his small mirror, and holding it carefully, caught the bright rays of daylight streaming through the window and reflected them onto my face and onto my hands folded on the desk.

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What do people mean when they say IDLE THOUGHTS COME FROM IDLE MINDS?

Answer 4

That minds that aren't tested and constantly learning/improving will continue to give the same simplistic thoughts out, because there is no evolution and learning to change it's thinking and knowledge from which to pull information.

Answer 5

I also agree with Grand pa. When you don't stay busy your mind wonders, mostly to negative thinking. If you stay busy you don't have time to think about the negative.

Answer 6

it means that if you're idle or bored you would have a greater tendency to do stupid things. or things you wouldnt do because you were busy...like see if fried mango acan taste good!

Answer 7

They mean they're the kind of person who only believes in the value of practical work and practical thoughts. Simple folk.

Answer 8

I think they mean it is better ti keep your mind busy and sharp if you want to stay out of trouble.

Answer 9

People who don't think say stupid things. That about sums it up.

Answer 10

Listen to Grand pa, he has it right.