The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Real bliss is to have peace of mind.
Interpretation
True happiness comes from a calm and peaceful mind.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes that genuine contentment and joy, or 'bliss', stem from inner peace. It suggests that rather than seeking external sources of happiness, one should cultivate a tranquil state of mind to attain real fulfillment in life.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a meditation group discussion.
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.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
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