The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.
Interpretation
Personal growth is the key to initiating broader societal change.
Deepak Chopra emphasizes that in order for society to evolve and improve, it is essential for individuals to first undergo personal transformation. This personal change acts as a catalyst for larger social progress, suggesting that our individual journeys of growth and self-discovery directly impact the collective wellbeing of our communities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal development at a self-help seminar.
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.
Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.
When I stepped away two springs ago, I just really wanted to shift my priorities to be able to be more available and present to show up for things that I felt were mattering more than being a professional athlete.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
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