The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that both the universe and humanity undergo a transformative journey over time.
Deepak Chopra emphasizes the interconnectedness of the universe and human existence, illustrating that just as the universe evolves, so do we as individuals. By referring to us as 'microcosms of stardust,' he highlights our fundamental relationship with the cosmos, suggesting that our existence, growth, and experiences reflect the greater changes occurring in the universe itself.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of science and spirituality, this quote can illustrate how we are all connected to the universe.
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 relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order.
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.
Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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