"There is nothing that is
completely within our power except our thoughts."
René Descartes (French philosopher: 1596 * 1650)
In this sentence we are in font of an explicit affirmation and an implicit negation. We can
only manage our thoughts but all material things surpass us. What does this
mean?
Before any case, we can accept or reject, we can also adhere to a doctrine and
neglect others, defend a cause and criticize others. We own our thoughts in a
different way from the way in which we have the tools in our house. Our
thoughts are ourselves. What am I regardless of my thoughts? However all
material things are not only independent from us, but they are beyond us. You
can not change the laws of the world. You can not destroy a quantity of
material. Nature has a system and its system is closed.
What we have said about the material
things should be applied to our bodies because they are also materials. We must
therefore conclude that our bodies are beyond us too. It is this body, with its
insatiable needs that drove more individuals to commit stupidities and crimes.
Are we strangers in this world. Are we spirits or Gods? Are our bodies
abnormal? Do they not have to be? Are the problems that pose our bodies to us
will be resolved in the future?