The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
Interpretation
Changing your physical life requires altering your mindset.
This quote suggests that the way we perceive and interact with our bodies is heavily influenced by our mental processes. To achieve significant changes in our physical existence, one must first address and modify their thought patterns and beliefs, essentially 'rewriting' the internal 'software' that drives one's actions and perceptions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.
I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.
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