The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.
Interpretation
Personal transformation leads to a broader impact on the world around you.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the connection between individual change and collective transformation. It suggests that by improving ourselves, we influence our environment and the world positively, highlighting the power of personal responsibility and growth in shaping our reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and its impact on society.
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.
My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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