Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

The way in which you are mismanaging your
mental machinery is wearing it out. But you cannot
see what harm this is doing. Sooner or later your
friends with you will see the unfavorable
development of your thoughts and actions. Your
stomach is beginning to testify to the action of the
mind. A symmetrical and well-disciplined mind
would change for the better the powers of
digestion.—Lt 29, 1897.
Harmony Uses Complementary Effort
(counsel to a husband).—We cannot all have the
same minds or cherish the same ideas; but one is to
be a benefit and blessing to the other, that where
one lacks, another may supply what is requisite.
You have certain deficiencies of character and
natural biases that render it profitable for you to be
brought in contact with a mind differently
organized, in order to properly balance your own.
Instead of superintending so exclusively, you
should consult with your wife and arrive at joint
decisions. You do not encourage independent effort
on the part of your family; but if your specific
directions are not scrupulously carried out, you too
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