We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.
Deepak ChopraThe experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.
Deepak ChopraThe mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.
Deepak ChopraEvery force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.
Deepak ChopraDon't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.
Deepak ChopraInner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.
Deepak ChopraBeing free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
Deepak ChopraTo 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.
Deepak ChopraReplace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.
Deepak ChopraWhen awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint.
Deepak ChopraThe collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.
Deepak ChopraSuccess in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.
Deepak ChopraWithout uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.
Deepak ChopraThe more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.
Deepak ChopraPeople love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.
Deepak ChopraLosing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.
Deepak ChopraWhen we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed.
Deepak ChopraTotal self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.
Deepak ChopraEven when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.
Deepak ChopraQuantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential
Deepak ChopraIt's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.
Deepak ChopraThrough silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.
Deepak ChopraThe essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.
Deepak ChopraLosing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.
Deepak ChopraAnd stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.
Deepak ChopraAll of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak ChopraI 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.
Deepak ChopraMy focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.
Deepak ChopraWhen emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.
Deepak ChopraRemember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.
Deepak ChopraEvery second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.
Deepak ChopraMemory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.
Deepak ChopraIf you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.
Deepak ChopraSince consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.
Deepak ChopraWhen you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?
Deepak ChopraPay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.
Deepak ChopraSo, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.
Deepak ChopraThe key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.
Deepak ChopraYour body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.
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