The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.
Interpretation
True self-awareness comes from recognizing one's connection to everything rather than searching externally.
Deepak Chopra's quote emphasizes the significance of understanding oneself by looking inward and recognizing our inherent connection to the unity of existence. Instead of seeking validation or identity from external sources, true realization occurs when we tap into this deeper source, which leads to genuine self-awareness and understanding of our purpose.
In practice
During a mindfulness retreat, one could use this quote to encourage participants to look within for their true selves.
The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.
It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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