The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.
Interpretation
Our present circumstances are shaped by the decisions we have previously made.
The quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the profound impact of our past choices on our current reality. It suggests that every moment we experience is a direct consequence of decisions we have taken, thus highlighting the importance of conscious and thoughtful decision-making in shaping our future.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal responsibility and 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.
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.
But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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