"You can't eat with your mouth closed."

A friend said this to me recently.  It made me laugh. He works at one of my favorite stores and is always full of humor.  The truth is this could be a metaphor for lots of things.  What comes to me first is "if our mind is closed, we don't get fed either."  Many things influence our lives and way of thinking.  Along the way, we choose what to believe and base our way of living on it.  But, just like food, old thoughts might need to be thrown out in order for our lives to be improved.  We need to know it is OK to throw these things out and start again with something better.  Make a ripple, embrace change, see what happens.