The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.
Interpretation
The essence of manifesting desires lies in the transformation of awareness rather than the complexity of the desires themselves.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes that achieving our desires becomes easier when we understand the process of transforming our awareness. Rather than seeing desires as external goals to pursue, it encourages us to view them as states of consciousness that we can shift through focused intent and self-awareness, highlighting the power of our minds and perceptions in shaping our reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving goals and personal growth.
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 Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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