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Have you tried to push the limits of your mind?

What do you think while you are eating something? Only the taste, or to finish it to turn back to what else you are doing… Have you ever thought that it might take more 30 years just to digest one meal, if there were no enzymes in your stomach :)
What do you think when you look at the mirror? Only to make your hair, brush your teeth, look nice? You see trillions of cells working in harmony “in the mirror”. These cells decide, act, defend, communicate and live for you. You don’t need to command them what to do, they already know it before you do…
Wide and deep thinking is a miraculous instrument for intelligence. And life can be better when you think about it.
That was such a video that breaks the routine in the mind…

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    Maaher Sayeed 10+

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    Dec 7 2012: Wonderful point Dolunay,

    Yes I keep pushing my mind constantly and falling off the cliff. But only to climb back.

    Human mind and our thinking potential is amazing. Several ordinary people achieved many extraordinary things by pushing their minds to the limits and not conforming to what they have been told.

    Yet we live in a world of sensible humans and insensible beings. We consider ourselves to be te most intelligent of species and yet defy our own intelect willingly and do what we know is wrong. For instance, we know know that smoking in injurious to our health and can kill us, yet we willingly choose to smoke. We are a baffling set of beings to say the least. I do not know of any other species that does this.

    We are often great thinkers but seldom great doers. You bring up a very interesting point. Thanks for sharing!!!
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      scienTEDic DT

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      Dec 7 2012: Agree with you, love your blog and the quotation below by the way! Very inspiring...
      "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Doing something good can make you a better person, but doing it constatnly can cahnge the world.
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      Dec 15 2012: Maaher, do you know, why when you are falling off the cliff, you are climbing back? This is done by your inbuilt survival need, that has any established system and so also yours as a personality. There might come the moment, when you might let go of your mind or better said: Of your identification with your mind. And then find out, that your existence is more and doesn't depend on your mind, your body and your emotions. You will find out, that you can experience yourself beyond all this, not depending anymore on outside conditions, happenings and others.
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        Maaher Sayeed 10+

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        Dec 15 2012: I hear you BeiYin. I am fully aware of this condition you speak off. I have expereinced such moments but holding on to my mind though.
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          Dec 17 2012: Maaher, you are holding on your mind, because you are identified with it and all what it contains. This is YOU as 'personality'. This 'personality system' wants to survive, this is just the inbuilt nature of all systems. You don't need to worry about it, as long you feel comfortable with yourself. But if you would suffer, then this would tell that you are trapped in your mind and so better should clear up your condition. But if there is no doubt, then there are no questions and so no answers.

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