The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
Interpretation
Spirituality encourages transcending individual or group identities to embrace a broader, universal awareness.
In this quote, Deepak Chopra emphasizes the transformative power of spirituality, suggesting that it serves to elevate our consciousness beyond the limitations of our personal or cultural identities. By engaging with spirituality, individuals can connect with a more profound, collective understanding that transcends divisions, fostering unity and awareness of our shared humanity.
In practice
In a speech on unity, one could say, 'As Deepak Chopra wisely notes, spirituality should lead us beyond our tribal identities, reminding us of our universal connection.'
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.
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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