The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.
Interpretation
Balancing life’s pressures is essential for mental health and tranquility.
This quote emphasizes the importance of managing stress and finding inner peace despite life's challenges. It suggests that while external pressures will always exist, one's ability to return to a calm and centered state is crucial for well-being; failing to do so can lead to being overstressed and overwhelmed.
In practice
During a motivational speech about managing workplace stress.
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.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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