The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.
Interpretation
Embracing challenges can bring joy and stimulate creativity in problem-solving.
Deepak Chopra emphasizes that viewing problems not as burdens but as opportunities for creative expression can transform our approach to difficulties. This mindset fosters a joyful engagement with challenges, encouraging innovative solutions and personal growth.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage team members during a project.
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 asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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