The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.
Interpretation
Small successes build momentum toward larger goals.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and seizing small successes in our lives. By appreciating these small achievements, we can bridge the gap between our current reality and our aspirations, ultimately leading us to greater fulfillment and success.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
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