The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.
Interpretation
Meditation is often perceived as a complex practice, but it can be approached simply.
Deepak Chopra emphasizes that the common perception of meditation as an intimidating or extensive practice is misleading. Instead, he suggests that individuals should approach meditation with a more relaxed mindset, making it accessible and manageable rather than overwhelming.
In practice
During a wellness workshop about mental health.
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.
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.
We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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