The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Begin to see yourself in all other beings.
Interpretation
Empathy allows us to recognize our shared humanity with others.
This quote by Deepak Chopra encourages individuals to cultivate a perspective that sees their own identity reflected in every other person. By developing compassion and understanding towards others, we can foster a sense of connection and unity that transcends individual differences, ultimately enhancing our relationships and promoting a more harmonious existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service, this quote can inspire individuals to see themselves in those they help.
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.
What I do know is that disabled people shouldn't be responsible for curing non-disabled people of their ignorance.
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
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