"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
This is an excellent quote. I am really chewing on this and have some questions. Where do our thoughts come from? Are we sure the mind is everything? Do we have indestructible souls, that will live on? When we and our minds die, does everything we have ever done, created, thought end with our deaths?
I remember a book titled, "As a man thinketh." It goes on the same premise of we are what we think. And the "I think, I feel, therefore I am."
I guess my ultimate question is, What is the origin of me even being able to think, or be, or create? Where How does our mind get here? How does something as complex as our minds become?
I believe I am (created), therefore I think and feel.
Dave
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I've often wondered some of the same things and I've never really come up with an answer.
Humans are simple carbon based organisms with two basic feelings, pain and pleasure. They derive all thoughts and emotions from these two simple feelings. Everything in memory is based from these two feelings, thus touching the flame as a child you learn not to do it…
Unfortunately some humans never learn that the pain feeling is not desirable thus returning to the flame and not learning to use this experience as a positive one but rather a negative one.
My fortune cookie said I’d have great wealth someday. The cookie was good, nice and crisp.
to answer your original question: some people I guess would say, god, buddah, allah etc
or evolution, reincarnation, the big bang theory, martians.
I don't know I guess I never thought about it
Everything you know was built from a great imagination that you were allowed to have from the moment you opened your eyes, you are thinking, breathing, consuming and expelling. Life is yours to make of it what you will, no one controls this but you. So in answering your own question realize that you can neither be right or wrong, you can just be (there is no set limits on being). Once you set a limit on it you no longer allow education, exploration, imagination. You will allow bigotry, pain, and suffering. Remember that guy Hitler, Ya he was on a path and had the only right answer.
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