The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.
Interpretation
We must foster compassion and understanding to ensure a better future for everyone.
Deepak Chopra emphasizes the importance of empathy and interconnectedness in shaping our future. By prioritizing compassion, acceptance, and understanding, we can build a more harmonious society that benefits all members and fosters positive change for generations to come.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service to highlight the importance of caring for others.
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.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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