The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
Interpretation
Loving is effortless when we are in tune with life, and resisting its flow leads to struggle.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the idea that love is a natural state that requires no effort when we are in harmony with the flow of life. It suggests that by embracing life as it is, rather than resisting it, we can find joy and clarity, allowing questions and challenges to resolve themselves through awareness.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing change and love in our lives.
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.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.
And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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