The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
Interpretation
Changing your physical life requires altering your mindset.
This quote suggests that the way we perceive and interact with our bodies is heavily influenced by our mental processes. To achieve significant changes in our physical existence, one must first address and modify their thought patterns and beliefs, essentially 'rewriting' the internal 'software' that drives one's actions and perceptions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.
If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.
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