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    A comment on Conversation: If you could correct one mistake you made in life, which would it be?

    Jan 17 2013: FACT: I could not correct any mistakes I made.

    KNOWLEDGE: I know I need to learn from those mistakes and do not make the same on again.

    MAKING A LEAP: For me not to make the same mistakes, I would need to let go of my past attachment - to my ego. Transmute habitual emotions. Letting go of my attachment is a great challenge, some small success, so far.

  • A comment on Conversation: What is the most controversial issue in nutrition

    Jan 12 2013: Less fat - but loads of sugar.


    Products that contains high sugar contents, eventhough fat contents would have been part of the product was never the major contributor to the overall kilojules/calories. Most consumers see the words "less fat" on the package and by default think that the food is healthy.
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    A comment on Conversation: Which is more important, to do right or to do good?

    Jan 11 2013: Neither.
    Good or right, implies judgement.

    Stick with the truth.

    The item belongs to person A, return to person A.

  • A comment on Conversation: Have you realized your potential?

    Jan 11 2013: Realising our own potential? It is in the language you accurately used. "Realising".

    Our potential is what and who we already are, complete and perfect.
    Unfortunately, we cover it up with several layers of dust and crust of egoic mind; fear mostly.

    Free yourself!!
    To realise our own potential, strip off and leave behind the habit of replaying the past. Take care of what can be and needs to be done now.

    I think it would help if we start by gradually identifying those multiple layers of values and beliefs that we consciously or otherwise hold onto. Majority of them are probably obsolete. A few of them could possibly define our rigid and/or aggressive response/ . Peeling away the crust that covers over conscious and you will discover your own potential the bright and beautiful self - just as when we were born. This marvelous self is in all of us - but most of us gradually cover it with dust and crust and became to believe that we are that dim light.

    Then work up the courage to let go of them, free ourselves from our own ego. Human beings have great potential to bring about great things - we are only limited by our own mind.

    The most powerful thing to do is to contribute to society - the global community. That's what we all have potential to achieve.
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    A comment on Conversation: Can you define your life in just six words?

    Jan 11 2013: Be like a tree, just be.

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