The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.
Interpretation
Forgiveness occurs when we let go of mental barriers that keep us apart from others.
This quote by Deepak Chopra suggests that true forgiveness is a process that happens internally when we remove the mental blockades we have built against others. It highlights that our perceptions and judgments can create walls that prevent us from connecting with others, and it is only by dismantling these barriers in our minds that we can achieve genuine forgiveness and healing in our relationships.
In practice
During a group therapy session, the facilitator shared this quote to encourage participants to explore their feelings about forgiveness.
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.
But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
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