The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Interpretation
Inner peace can lead to greater clarity and self-reflection.
This quote emphasizes the importance of finding calm and tranquility within oneself. When our minds are chaotic or tumultuous like moving waters, we cannot see our true selves or the beauty around us. By allowing ourselves to settle into a state of calm, we become more aware of our inner being and can better appreciate the reflections of wisdom and tranquility that life offers.
In practice
During a meditation retreat, this quote can inspire participants to seek inner calm.
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.
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
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