'Mindscaping' for career building 19

'You can chain me, you can torture me, you can destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind'

Mahatma Gandhi

Which is  more powerful - our body or our mind?

I want to speak about a school boy. He used to work part time in the school. His job was to light the fireplace everyday and then come to his class. One day when the other students came to the class, they saw this boy engulfed in fire. He was rushed to the hospital where the doctors told his mother that he will die. But the boy told himself that he wants to live. The miracle happened. He recovered and the doctors were stunned. The doctors told his mother that he cannot walk in his life time. But the boy told himself that he will walk. The boy was discharged in a wheel chair. The mother was worried. But the boy was hopeful. One day we tried to get up from his wheel chair and fell down. His mother wanted him to give up walking. But he persevered the next day and the next day. One day he ran in Madison Square Garden and covered 1 mile in 4:06:08 to be the world's fastest man.

He is Dr. Glenn Cunningham!

Now tell me which is powerful - the mind or the body?

N C Sridharan

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