The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
Interpretation
Compassion connects us to others and is a vital emotional experience.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes that compassion is not just a simple feeling; it is a dynamic and vital force that flows through us, creating connections with others. It suggests that our ability to empathize and feel for others forms the foundation of our relationships and our shared human experience.
In practice
In a speech about community service, you might say this quote to inspire empathy.
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.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.
Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.
If you want to improve a relationship, it's not that you demand your spouse to change. You have to ask, 'Where did I fail in this relationship?'
In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.'
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