What is it that makes a mind refined?
Consider the idea that the mind goes through a process of refinement that takes us from child to teenager to adult to mastered adult. The refinement allows us to stop all the noise and choose our responses. So what does it look like?
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
― Leo Tolstoy
References
The Refinement of the Mind