The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
Interpretation
Maintain your inner peace despite external chaos to tap into your creative potential.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the importance of inner stillness amidst the hustle and bustle of life. No matter where you are or what circumstances surround you, preserving a sense of tranquility allows you to remain connected to your creative reservoir, enabling you to access new ideas and possibilities without being overwhelmed by external distractions.
In practice
During a motivational speech on creativity, one might say, 'Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you.'
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.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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