"Man becomes what he thinks about" - Morris Goodman
Sorry this video doesn't have subtitles or caption. It is about Morris Goodman who had an accident with plane, he crashed his plane into ground. He was paralyzed from neck to feets. Doctor told him that he will never be able to walk for his life. However, Morris Goodman refused to believe that. He rather to try something than giving up and listen to the 'fact' that people, including doctor tells him. By his steer determinations and strong heart, he kept trying with every efforts through his thought and heart to make himself walk again. He used the power of his mind. He believed wholeheartedly that he would walk, he kept visualizing himself walking, felt himself walking... Intended it all the way even when he couldn't move his body. Through months, he was able to walk again. He wrote this quote that I quoted from him above:
"Man becomes what he thinks about" - Morris Goodman
And here is his video and it is very inspiring video!
By the way, there is wise people said similar thing to Morris Goodman's own quotes for reasons:
"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." – Albert Einstein
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” - Lao Tzu
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha
"Whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right." - Henry Ford
"Consciousness is the fundamental verity! Thought is a function of consciousness! Energy is the product of thought! And, finally, matter is the crystallization of energy!” - Brahmarshi Patriji
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Every of us have different ways of living a life and experiencing from it for reasons... I have done what people considered 'impossible' in my life and I turned the impossible into possible. Same with people out there. The reasons why "few' people out there are successful is because they are aware of the power of their own minds. It doesn't mean everyone can't do it. Just like Henry Ford said:
"Whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right." - Henry Ford
And that is the point. So many people have been stuck with the situations going on with their lives which is why many are unsuccessful. It happened with everyone, besides in my life, I learned one value lesson. There is no such thing as failure, it is prototype to success. Without failure, there would be NO way we would learn from it and become something better. That is how nature evolve into better nature... And that is how animals evolve into better animals... Through their own failure and they adapt and evolve into something better right?
When someone are very unsuccessful, often people just give up, throw in towel and said "That's it, I am failure". THAT is what make them not successful in anything, especially their happiness anymore due to their fears... The FEARS of failing everything again and again. Sometime you had to be defeated or failed over and over so you can truly learn from it and use it as your greatest strength.
Really, we can't always compare ourselves to people who failed and gave up. NO matter if thousands, million, billion failed and give up, when one never give up and achieved their big dreams, it affects other and make other having courage to 'do it again' until they success again. Just like this extreme stubborn person, Walt Disney, he went bankrupt seven times before he finally bought Disney world project alive... There are other who achieved because of never giving up their dreams.
What prevented major of people from achieving ,especially with power of their mind along with intentions is that they think they can't do it after they fallen down. Yes life can look brutal, scary, monstrous . That is why word 'Courage" is invented and that is about facing it on no matter how big life or big world look, it takes one to go through it and achieve the dream no matter what people say.
I have one favorite saying about TONS of people who keep living in ignorant and think that more people giving up mean life is impossible just because of way it is:
"The truth is never dependent on a consensus of opinion. If a thousand people say something foolish, it is still foolish." - Anatole France
Besides, I have been seeing more people are making the big differences in their lives through time than before and I am very thankful for it. I keep rolling through life and help people opening their eye to beyond what they can only see, especially their mind and heart to what defines them. To truly change the world, we have to change within us and NOT be afraid of failure just because many people failed... And never compare ourselves to these people, we are who we are, we all of us are unique to each other experiencing our lives in our own ways. If one of us truly want to show them that ANYTHING is possible, then we gotta to live fullest to our heart, not what people think is possible or impossible.
Thank you for sharing you inputs, anyone's feedback is always appreciated This man wasn't able to move physically. All he got left was just his mind... That is why mind is most powerful things. I have been experimenting with the power of mind, it have been changing my life itself in interesting way. Like I noticed that my weight have been losing without going to gym (I am unable to go to gym for several reasons) when my mind comes into play while I was busy going to work and doing my many things.
However, that is why mind is much more powerful than the body itself. I have met few very interesting people who made big changes to their lives through the power of their thought, feeling, intentions. And no I am NOT saying "we just sit and think happily about it", and that would NEVER change anything without putting efforts on anything ever! When someone put efforts into what he/she do even with or without the body, things always start rolling into their lives. Just like this man, who was paralyzed and could never move body at all. And how can he make himself walk again when he have no body movement and was all just left with 'mind'? That is where mind, intentions, and efforts all come into actions.
What make him different from other people who have been paralyzed like him is that he doesn't believe what doctor tells him. Usually people believe what doctors tell what he/she can or can't do, hence let doctor's mind become their things. That is why Einsteins said "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.". Just like this man when doctor was stating their 'facts' that Morris can never walk because of how body was completely destroyed inside from plane crash. He made his choices... The power of choices is to acknowledge that anyone have the abilities to make choices of what to believe or not. He chose to believe in his own way, his own desires... The power of desires is what gives him passion of living a life... to be what defines him as he do what he is meant to do. He was doing without the body at first.
That is what I have been doing now, living my lifetime dreams and that is moving to Japan. I honestly don't know how I am going to do it but lately everything have been coming together for me now since I truly believe in it, express through efforts of my thought, intentions, heart, along with what I do through my days... Rolling through days with my own thoughts instead of listening to other what they call it "facts'. By the way, I like how you post things through this forum questioning everything that is how we truly learn through our lives by analyzing everything and learn from it. You are not afraid to express anything despite that you get replied either positive or negative from people and being honest to yourself. That is what I am doing too and i thank you for inspiring me to do this even further. :D