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• A comment on Talk: Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

  Jul 20 2011: Truly a very profound talk. She ends with saying, "simple awareness is where it begins." It's that simple is it not? Just the awareness of how the self defines itself each moment and relates to the other, awareness of how we relate to and connect with the environment.
  
  Inspiring talk.
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  A comment on Conversation: What's your favorite single sentence from a TEDTalk?

  Feb 15 2011: "I say to you, trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens don't give up." -- William Kamkwamba
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_the_wind.html

• A reply on Talk: Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance

  Jun 20 2010: It's not just about surviving cancer.... You build your life with passion, brick by brick, for years, and suddenly all your dreams, beliefs, ideas about life get shattered. How do you take that? It takes enormous amount of strength to get on with life when you are confronted with such a situation. Ananda derived that strength from her passion for dance and the metaphor. The commendable thing is not just the recovery from cancer itself, but how she got on with life without wallowing into self-pity and misery.
  
  TED has published a Q&A with Ananda, that's something you should read. http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/qa_with_ananda.php
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  A comment on Talk: Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance

  Jun 19 2010: Very very inspiring. Sister, take a bow.
  
  At 3:32 she says, "I realised then, I who thought I had complete control over my life, had control of only three things. My thought, my mind, the images that these thoughts created, and the action that derived from it." That's supreme realization, supreme wisdom.
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  A comment on Talk: William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

  May 8 2010: Beautiful talk. His message towards the end is very inspiring.

• A reply on Talk: Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable

  Mar 22 2010: Wow! How appropriate it is to discover this talk today, the 'World Water Day', especially this years theme being "Clean Water for a Healthy World". Nice to know that device has been of great help in Haiti. We've heard too much about the world problems for too long. Time we have more of solutions like these.
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  A comment on Talk: Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

  Mar 2 2010: Brilliant talk.
  
  What we think as past is nothing but accumulated memories, and as he says, "even when we think about the future, we don't think of our future normally as experiences, we think of our future as anticipated memories". So all that we think as past and future are nothing but memories, and these memories can in no way be accurate representation of what actually happened or what actually will happen. We make our own stories when we are obsessed with past and future, that is when we strongly identify with the remembering self. This is entanglement.
  
  Way out of this entanglement is to recognize the fact that the experiencing self is all that is, everything else is just memories, the stories we make up. Experiencing self is about right here, right now. This what is meant by living in the present moment, and as they say 'establishing oneself in the witness consciousness'. This is enlightenment.