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.
Life is too short to read a bad book.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
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