The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Use memories. Do not let memories use you.
Interpretation
Memories should serve as tools for reflection rather than control over our present life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of memories in shaping our identities and guiding our decisions. However, it warns against being overly influenced or burdened by past experiences, suggesting that while we should acknowledge our memories, we must not allow them to dictate our current actions or emotions.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles, you can use this quote to inspire others to learn from their past.
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.
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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