This is one of my all time favourite clips. It’s from the movie Waking Life, which I highly highly recommend.

This clip really strikes a chord with me. I wonder, if one of the clay people they made had realized what he was, then what? If we were to draw the obvious analogy that we are like the clay people, then what? What purpose is there if all there is is emptiness and a thought? Meh…

I love how passionate and fascinated he is while describing this. It really is remarkable to think about what’s going on right in front of our eyes.

Will is the dynamic soul-force. When it operates all the mental powers such as the power of judgment, power of memory, power of grasping, power of conversation, reasoning power, power of discrimination, power of reflection and inference—all these come into instant play.

Will is the king of mental powers. When rendered pure and irresistible, thought and will can work wonders. Will becomes impure and weak through vulgar passions, love of pleasures and desires. The lesser the number of desires, the stronger is the thought power, and the will. When sexual energy, the muscular energy, anger, etc., are transmuted into the will-force they are controlled. There is nothing impossible on earth for a man of strong will-power.

When you give up an old habit of drinking coffee, you have controlled to a certain extent the sense of taste, destroyed one Vasana, and have eliminated the craving for it. As there is freedom from the efforts to procure coffee and also from the habit of taking it, you will gain some peace. The energy involved in the hankering for coffee, and which was agitating you, will now be converted into the power of will. By this conquest over one desire, you gain will-power; and if you conquer some fifteen such desires, your will-power will be fifteen times stronger and more powerful. And this conquest, by imparting strength to the willdesires, too.

I highly recommend this book, even if simply skimmed, it will provide valuable knowledge and insight. Download Power of Thought.