The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
Interpretation
Acknowledge your mistakes and move forward without blame or excuses.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal accountability in our decision-making. By taking responsibility for our past mistakes, we empower ourselves to grow and learn from them, rather than getting stuck in a cycle of blame or self-justification.
In practice
In a personal development workshop, to encourage participants to embrace their past mistakes.
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 passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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