The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.
Interpretation
Each person plays a unique role in the larger tapestry of existence and has something valuable to contribute.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the interconnectivity of all human beings and the importance of individuality within that framework. It suggests that every person is not only unique but also essential in contributing to the greater good of life, encouraging self-awareness and social responsibility.
In practice
During a motivational speech on community involvement.
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.
Weβre only here for a short while. And I think itβs such a lucky accident, having been born, that weβre almost obliged to pay attention.
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.
I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.
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