The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
In every failure lies the seeds of success.
Interpretation
Failure is a necessary step on the path to achieving success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing failure not as an end, but as a crucial part of the journey towards success. It suggests that each setback or mistake contains valuable lessons and potential opportunities that, if understood and utilized, can lead to future achievements.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to embrace challenges.
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.
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
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