The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Interpretation
The quote encourages maintaining inner peace despite external turmoil.
Deepak Chopra's quote suggests that in times of chaos and movement, it is crucial to cultivate a sense of stillness within oneself. This inner calm enables individuals to navigate life's challenges more effectively, providing clarity and resilience when faced with external disruptions. The emphasis is on the power of inner tranquility as a counterbalance to the chaos that surrounds us.
In practice
During a motivational speech on stress management.
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.
Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.
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