The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Interpretation
Inner silence helps us achieve mental clarity and find peace during challenges.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cultivating inner silence as a means of achieving mental clarity and tranquility. By turning inward, we can connect with a profound source of peace and inspiration that enables us to effectively handle life's problems and challenges, ultimately valuing our inner world and well-being.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might reference this quote to encourage mindfulness.
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.
Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
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