The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
Interpretation
Take control of your life and shape your own narrative.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the importance of personal agency in life. It encourages individuals to see themselves as the creators of their own life stories, suggesting that by directing, producing, and choreographing our experiences, we can navigate our paths intentionally rather than passively letting life unfold around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-empowerment.
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.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
One tended to lose oneβs bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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