The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.
Interpretation
Life is unpredictable, and unexpected events can lead you to a greater destiny than you planned.
This quote emphasizes the unpredictability of life and how unforeseen circumstances can alter our paths in significant ways. Deepak Chopra suggests that the universe often has grander plans for us than we are able to envision, highlighting the importance of being open to life's surprises and the potential for new opportunities that arise from them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and uncertainty.
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.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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