Background Image

...

I Think Everybody Plays A Role In Their Own Aging. Some People Accelerate It. Some People Slow It Down. Some People Manage To Reverse It. It All Depends On How Much You Are Invested In The Hypnosis Of Our Social Condition. So If You Believe That At A Certain Age You Have To Die And You Become Dysfunctional, Then You Will.

-Deepak Chopra

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

I Think Everybody Plays

Deepak Chopra

...

I Think Everybody Plays A Role In Their Own Aging. Some People Accelerate It. Some People Slow It Down. Some People Manage To Reverse It. It All Depends On How Much You Are Invested In The Hypnosis Of Our Social Condition. So If You Believe That At A Certain Age You Have To Die And You Become Dysfunctional, Then You Will.

Views: 35370

Topic

More From Deepak Chopra

Bring Into Your Mind Anyone Against Whom You Have A Grievance And Let It Go. Send That Person Your Forgiveness.

If I Find A Green Meadow Splashed With Daisies And Sit Down Beside A Clear-running Brook, I Have Found Medicine. It Soothes My Hurts As Well As When I Sat In My Mother's Lap In Infancy, Because The Earth Really Is My Mother, And The Green Meadow Is Her Lap.

Pain In The Present Is Experienced As Hurt. Pain In The Past Is Remembered As Anger. Pain In The Future Is Perceived As Anxiety. Unexpressed Anger, Redirected Against Yourself And Held Within, Is Called Guilt. The Depletion Of Energy That Occurs When Anger Is Redirected Inward Creates Depression.

Not Every Sky Will Be Blue And Not Every Day Is Springtime. So On The Spiritual Path A Person Learns To Find This Kind Of Happiness Without Needing Nice Things To Happen On The Outside. Rather, You Find Happiness By Being Who You Really Are. This Isn't Mystical. Young Children Are Happy Being Who They Are. The Trick Is To Regain Such A State When You Are Grown And Have Seen The Light And Dark Sides Of Life.

My Body Is A Projection Of My Consciousness.

Practicing The Law Of Giving Is Actually Very Simple; If You Want Joy, Give Joy To Others; If You Want Love, Learn To Give Love; If You Want Attention And Appreciation, Learn To Give Attention And Appreciation; If You Want Material Affluence, Help Others To Become Materially Affluent. In Fact, The Easiest Way To Get What You Want Is To Help Others Get What They Want.

If You Could Really See That Tree Over There," Merlin Said, "you Would Be So Astounded That You'd Fall Over." "really? But Why?" Asked Arthur. "it's Just A Tree." "no," Merlin Said, "it's Just A Tree In Your Mind. To Another Mind It Is An Expression Of Infinite Spirit And Beauty. In God's Mind It Is A Dear Child, Sweeter Than Anything You Can Imagine.

It's Hard Enough To Change Ourselves. We Can't Expect Other People To Change So That We Feel Better. We Have To Take The Journey Ourselves.

If You Look At All The Lobbyists In Washington, This Is Not A Democracy. This Is Ruled By Special Interest Groups. That Includes The Military, The Pharmaceutical Industry, The People Who Produce Mechanized Debt, Gmo Foods. We Are Prisoners.

Every Drop Of Water In An Ocean Contains The Flavor Of The Whole Ocean. So Too, Every Moment In Time Contains The Flavor Of Eternity, If You Could Live In That Moment, But Most People Do Not Live In The Moment Which Is The Only Time They Really Have.

When You Expand Your Awareness, Your Energy Flows Freely. You're More Flexible, Balanced, And Creative. You View Yourself And The World With More Compassion And Understanding. You Have More Energy And Are Open To New Possibilities.

When You Begin To Meditate On A Regular Basis, You Will Start To Notice That Thoughts And Feelings That May Have Been Building Up Inside Of You Are Gently Released And You Reach The Quiet Place That Was Always There, Waiting For You- The Place Of Pure Awareness. It Is There That You Will Experience Peace, Healing, And True Rejuvenation.

We Somehow Forget That We Can Choose Whether To Make Time An Enemy Or An Ally.

Observe The Silence Between Your Thoughts, Actions, Reactions, And You Will Feel The Presence Of Spirit In The Stillness Of Those Spaces.

The Universe Has Much Bigger Plans For You Than You Ever Dreamed Of For Yourself.

At Any Given Time The Universe Is Giving You The Best Result Possible.

...religion Is A Tool To Bind People Together, To Strengthen Their Unity, But Like Every Tool, It Can Be Mismanaged, Even Used In Opposition To The Way It Should.

One Of The Keys To Harnessing This Potentially Unlimited Power Of The Mind Is To Expand Your Level Of Self-awareness.

To Say That Nature Displays Intelligence Doesn't Make You A Christian Fundamentalist. Einstein Said As Much, And A Fascinating Theory Called The Anthropic Principle Has Been Seriously Considered By Stephen Hawking, Among Others.

Don't Regret The Past Or Fear The Future. Both Bring Misery Through Self-doubt.

You Don't Need Others To Change In Order To Be Happy.

Let Us Realize That Engagement And Detachment Aren't Opposite-the More Engaged We Become, The More Detached We Will Have To Be.

When Someone Else Makes A Mistake, It Is Their Responsibility To Correct It, But It Is Your Responsibility To Handle How You Feel About It.

The Intention Behind Our Giving And Receiving Is The Most Important Thing. When The Act Of Giving Is Joyful, When It Is Unconditional And From The Heart, Then The Energy Behind The Giving Increases Many Times Over. But If We Give Grudgingly, There Is No Energy Behind That Giving. If We Feel We Have Lost Something Through The Act Of Giving, Then The Gift Is Not Truly Given And Will Not Cause Increase.

Tidal Rhythms Have An Effect On Our Physiology.... When We Feel Out Of Sorts, Our Body Is Out Of Sync With The Body Of The Universe. Spending Time Near The Ocean, Or Anywhere In Nature, Can Help Us To Synchronize Our Rhythms With Nature's Rhythms.

The 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.

Since We Are An Inextricable Part Of The Field Of Consciousness, We Are Also Infinitely Creative, Unbounded, And Eternal.

The Mind And The Body Are Like Parallel Universes. Anything That Happens In The Mental Universe Must Leave Tracks In The Physical One

We Are The Universe Pretending To Be Individuals.

Whatever Relationships You Have Attracted In Your Life At This Moment, Are Precisely The Ones You Need In Your Life At This Moment. There Is A Hidden Meaning Behind All Events, And This Hidden Meaning Is Serving Your Own Evolution.

Simplicity Is Cosmic, Because It Places Our Life On The Same Scale As All Life, Of Innocent Nature Herself, Who Is All-powerful.

When You Look At Nutrition From A Purely Scientific Point Of View, There Is No Place For Consciousness. And Yet, Consciousness Could Be One Of The Crucial Determinants Of The Metabolism Of Food Itself.

By Dwelling On Negativity, We Prevent Ourselves From Living In The Simple State Of Well-being.

Abundance Comes From Within It Comes From Thought , Intention, Attention And Expectation

Yoga Teaches Us Both To Let Go And To Have Exquisite Awareness In Every Moment. We Remember Our Essential Spiritual Nature And Life Becomes More Joyful, Meaningful, And Carefree.

Getting Regular Restful Sleep Is An Essential Key To Staying Healthy And Vital, Yet It Is So Often Neglected Or Underemphasized.

I Meditate Twice A Day. I Meditate Two Hours Every Day. I Spend At Least An Hour Working Out. So That's Three Hours Every Day Of Something Mind/body Discipline. Other Than That: Nothing.

Intentions Compressed Into Words Enfold Magical Power.

Power Of Intention

In Religion, The Ego Manifests As The Devil. And Of Course, No One Realizes How Smart The Ego Is Because It Created The Devil So You Could Blame Someone Else.

The Fact That We Are Born With The Potential To Go From Simple Survival To God-consciousness Is The Remarkable Trait That Sets Our Nervous Systems Apart From All Other Creatures. How To Know God.

Living In The Present Moment Creates The Experience Of Eternity.

Live In The Moment

Our Essential Nature Is One Of Pure Potentiality.

Self Improvement

Health Is Not Just The Absence Of A Disease. It's An Inner Joyfulness That Should Be Ours All The Time; A State Of Positive Well-being.

The Next Step In Mans Evolution Will Be The Survival Of The Wisest.

Slip Into The Gap, Have The Desire, Detach From The Outcome, And Let The Universe Take Care Of The Details.

Every 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.

Bliss Cannot Be Found By Remembering The Past Or Anticipating The Future.

Wall Street Is Broken For Sure Because It Succumbed To Greed And Corruption And Pure Speculation With No Values.

Children Offer The Finest Expressions Of Openness And Flexibility. They Play And Laugh Freely, And Find Wonder In The Smallest Things.

If You Change Your Relationship With Time, You Will Change Your Life. The Most Important Time Of Your Life Is Right Now.

Changing Your Life

Everyone Knows How To Choose; Few Know How To Let Go. But It's Only By Letting Go Of Each Experience That You Make Room For The Next. The Skill Of Letting Go Can Be Learned, And Once Learned You Will Enjoy Living Much More Spontaneously.

I Try Not To Live My Life Worrying About What Others Think. A Core Spiritual Quality Is Nonjudgment, Which Is Not Just About Not Judging Others, But Also Not Living Your Life Worried About Others Judging You.

Seriousness Is Equated With Responsibility, When, In Fact, I Think We Would Be Much More Responsible If We Had More Joy And Laughter In Our Lives.

The Only Preparation Or Participation Required To Unleash The Power Of Intention Is A Connection To The Conscious Intelligence Field, Which Can Be Attained In Many Ways, One Of The Best Being Meditation.

Every Second Of Time Is A Doorway To Unbounded Possibilities. Yet If You Are Not Open To Them, These Possibilities Shrink.

Embrace The Unpredictable And Unexpected. It Is The Path To The Infinitely Creative In You.

Karma, Memory, And Desire Are Just The Software Of The Soul. It's Conditioning That The Soul Undergoes In Order To Create Experience. And It's A Cycle. In Most People, The Cycle Is A Conditioned Response. They Do The Same Things Over And Over Again.

When You Struggle With Your Partner, You Are Struggling With Yourself. Every Fault You See In Them Touches A Denied Weakness In Yourself.

We Can Actually Accelerate The Process Through Meditation, Through The Ability To Find Stillness Through Loving Actions, Through Compassion And Sharing, Through Understanding The Nature Of The Creative Process In The Universe And Having A Sense Of Connection To It. So, That's Conscious Evolution.

Meditation Will Work On Anyone Who Has A Functioning Human Nervous System. All You Need Is The Intelligence To Follow Simple Instructions. Even Children As Young As 4 And 5 Have Been Taught To Meditate Successfully.

Pay 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.

Life Gives You Plenty Of Time To Do Whatever You Want To Do If You Stay In The Present Moment.

To Be In Touch With Yourself Requires Great Sensitivity To Everything That's Going On Here And Now.

Inside Each Person Is A Divine Being That Yearns To Come Into Full Expression

When We Develop Reverence For Food And The Miracle Of Transformation Inherent In It, Just The Simple Act Of Eating Creates A Ritual Of Celebration.

Even The Most Time-honoured Truths Do Not Have To Be Accepted Until They Are Your Truths.

Awakening Is Not Changing Who You Are, But Discarding Who You Are Not.

Everyday Life Surrounds Us In A Swirling Chaos, And It's Easy To Fall Into The Grip Of Our Ego's Fears And Confusion. Remind Yourself Each Day Of Your Intentions And Spiritual Purpose. Meditate, Find Your Center, Look Closely At Yourself, And Don't Let Go Of Your Intention Until It Feels Centered Inside Yourself.

I Can Transform My Entire Life. The Universe Is An Unbroken, Continuous Fabric Within Which I Can Create And Intend My Destiny.

The Soul Is On A Journey Through Cosmic Time, And You Can Orchestrate Your Journey Through Cosmic Time, When You Have Awakened To The Bigger Reality.

Yoga Means Union Of The Individual Mind With Universal Mind, So Meditation Is Considered The Essence Of Yoga. The Transformation Of The Mind And Body During Meditation Is Significantly More Profound Than Simply Resting With Your Eyes Closed.

The All-pervading Energy Source Of Existence Or Shakti Manifests Itself As Creation. Shakti Is The Divine Mother Who Gives Birth To And Nurtures The Newborn-whether It Is A Newborn Babies A Brand New Relationship, A Fresh Idea, Or A Magical Manifestation. Although Shakti Is Beyond The Boundaries Of Gender, Form Or Color, We Call It Mother Because Of Its Mothering And Creative Qualities.

New Relationship

Solving Problems Should Be A Joy, A Welcome Challenge To Our Creativity.

My Dad Said, 'in School, Be A Catholic. At Home, Be A Hindu.' So We Did Both.

In Every Conversation I've Had - With Housewives In Mumbai, With Middle-class People, Upper-class, In The Slums - Everyone Says There Is An Underlying Consciousness Of Karma. That People Believe In Karma - That What You're Putting Out Is Going To Come Back. If I Do Something To You, The Energy Of It Is Going To Come Back To Me In The Future.

In My Definition Of Consciousness, Consciousness Is The Same Thing As Life. What Wisdom Traditions Also Call Spirit.

Even Though The Body Appears To Be Material, It Is Not. In The Deeper Reality, Your Body Is A Field Of Energy, Transformation And Intelligence.

If You Want To Reach A State Of Bliss - Make A Decision To Relinquish The Need To Control, The Need To Be Approved And The Need To Judge.

Speak Of Love With Others. Remind Each Other Of Your Spiritual Purpose

True Ecstasy Is Stepping Out Of The Bondage Of The Time-bound, Space-bound World. We Long To Be Free Of Fear And Limitation. We Hunger To Experience Our Infinite, Unbounded Self.

By Creating An Artificial Environment, We're Not Stimulating Our Immune System Enough. Germs Are Immune-stimulants. They Challenge You To Be Prepared.

It Is The Nature Of Babies To Be In Bliss.

Compassion Is Subtler Than Vitamin C, But Both Are Real Needs.

Pure Physical Sensation, Social Status, Sexual Attraction, And Feeling Like A Winner Are Generally Superficial, Which Is Why People Hunger For Them Repeatedly.the Only Goal Worth Attaining Is Complete Freedom To Be Yourself, Without Illusions And False Beliefs.the Past And The Future Exist Only In Imagination. Everything You Did Before Has No Reality. Everything You Will Do Afterward Has No Reality. Only The Thing You Are Doing Now Is Real.

As You Take Steps To Expand Your Awareness, You Will Naturally Find Yourself Harnessing Your Mind's Infinite Power To Create Greater Health, Happiness, And Love In Your Life.

Finding Yourself

Happiness And Love

Love Is What We Are In Our Essence, And The More Love We Feel In Our Hearts, The More It Will Be Brought To Us.

Accept That Living In The Present Moment, With Your Present Desires, Is The Best, The Highest Thing You Can Do.

The Yoga Sutras Offers A Clear Roadmap For The Evolution Of Consciousness From Ordinary States Of Awareness Such As Waking, Dreaming, And Sleeping - To Higher States Of Consciousness.

Coincidences Are Not Accidents But Signals From The Universe Which Can Guide Us Toward Our True Destiny.

You Can Keep Your Memory Intact, Preserve Your Brain's Health, And Minimize The Risk Of Aging And Senile Dementia, Things That Are Greatly Feared As People Grow Older.

We Must Revisit The Idea That Science Is A Methodology And Not An Ontology.

I Went To Medical School Because I Wanted To Ask The Big Questions. Do We Have A Soul? Does God Exist? What Happens After Death?

By Becoming Self-aware, You Gain Ownership Of Reality; In Becoming Real, You Become The Master Of Both Inner And Outer Life.

We're All Inseparably Part Of Each Other. We All Coexist In Each Other.

Never Give Up Hope. Know That You Are Loved.

Never Give Up Hope

Weve Been Taught That Aging Means Decline Of The Mind And Body , But That Doesnt Have To Be The Case. With Timeless You, I Invite You To Explore A Different Path , One Where You Feel Youthful , Vibrant And Fit As You Age.

The Universe Is A Mirror Of Consciousness.

Desires Are Seeds Waiting For Their Season To Sprout. From A Single Seed Of Desire, Whole Forests Grow.

You And I Are Infinite Choice-makers. In Every Moment Of Our Existence, We Are In That Field Of All Possibilities Where We Have Access To An Infinity Of Choices. Some Of These Choices Are Made Consciously, While Others Are Made Unconsciously. But The Best Way To Understand And Maximize The Use Of Karmic Law Is To Become Consciously Aware Of The Choices We Make Every Moment.

In Every Failure Is The Seed Of Success... Our Failures Are Stepping Stones In The Mechanics Of Creation, Bringing Us Even Closer To Our Goals. In Reality, There Is No Such Thing As Failure. What We Call Failure Is Just A Mechanism Through Which We Can Learn To Do Things Right.

The Sanskrit Word Namaste Means 'the Spirit In Me Honors The Spirit In You.' Whenever You First Make Eye Contact With Another Person, Say 'namaste' Silently To Yourself. This Is A Way Of Acknowledging That The Being There Is The Same As The Being Here.

While The Health Benefits Are Many, Yoga Offers Much More Than Just A Way To Exercise The Body.

By Connecting With The Present We Turn Our Attention Inward, Away From All The Chaos And Activity, And Experience Our Eternal, Unbounded Nature.

The Goal Of All Goals Is Happiness, And Our Emotions Are Like Road Signs On That Journey Toward The Goal Of Happiness.

We Confuse Ourselves With Space-time Events, When In Fact We Are The Ones Who Generate These Space-time Events.

Whatever You Are Passionate About, There Is Some Skill Associated With It And There's Some Service Associated With It. Go For It, And Don't Worry About The Money All The Time.

Affluence, Unboundedness, And Abundance Are Our Natural States. We Need Only To Restore The Memory Of What We Already Know.

You Cannot Stand Anywhere In The Universe That Is Outside Of Yourself.

To Love And Be Loved Is The Most Natural Expression Of Our Being.

Time Exists So That You Can Experience These Flavors As Deeply As Possible. On The Path Of Devotion, If You Can Experience Even A Glimmer Of Love, Its Possible To Experience A Little More Love. When You Experience That A Little More, Then The Next Degree Of Intensity Is Possible. Thus, Love Engenders Love Until You Reach The Point Of Saturation, When You Totally Merge With The Divine Love. This Is What The Mystics Mean When They Say That They Plunge Into The Ocean Of Love To Drown Themselves.

When We Transcend Our Own Thoughts, We Get In Touch With The Womb Of Creation.

Curving Back Within Myself I Create The World Around Me.

God Gave Humans The Truth, And The Devil Came And He Said, 'let's Give It A Name And Call It Religion.'

Victims Always Feel Alone And Helpless.

For Everyone, Well-being Is A Journey. The Secret Is Committing To That Journey And Taking Those First Steps With Hope And Belief In Yourself.

To Be A Mentor You Need To Understand What's Going On In A Young Person's Life And You Just Want To Have An Internal Dialogue That Says, 'how Can I Help? Because I Really Care.'

You Can Reverse Your Biological Age By Changing Your Perceptions.

If The Fate Of The Universe Was Decided In A Single Moment At The Instant Of The Big Bang , That Was The Most Creative Moment Of All.

The Beginning Of Suffering Is Often A Refusal To Look At The Situation As It Really Is.

Daydream, Imagine, And Reflect. It’s The Source Of Infinite Creativity.

When Your Actions Are Motivated By Love, You Expend Least Effort And Your Energy Multiplies, Allowing You To Create Anything You Want, With A Spirit Of Play And Joy. When You Seek Power And Control Over Others, You Waste Energy Chasing The Illusion Of Happiness.

The Spiritual Meaning Of Love Is Measured By What It Can Do. Love Is Meant To Heal. Love Is Meant To Renew. Love Is Meant To Bring Us Closer To God.

Now Is The Moment That Never Ends.

Experiencing The Silence Of Meditation Doesn't Have To Be Complicated. You Can Lie On The Floor With Arms And Legs Outspread, Paying Attention To The Sensations In Your Body. You Can Observe The Outflow And Inflow Of Your Breath. You Can Also Go To A Park And Let The Impressions Of Nature Calm Your Brain.

The Universe Has No Restrictions. You Place Restrictions On The Universe With Your Expectations.

The Ultimate Goal Of All Goals Is To Be Happy. If You Want To Be Happy Make Someone Else Happy.

You Can't Make Positive Choices For The Rest Of Your Life Without An Environment That Makes Those Choices Easy, Natural, And Enjoyable.

Nutritional Supplements Are Not A Substitute For A Nutritionally Balanced Diet.

What Happens Is Consciousness Operates In Mysterious Ways. One Of Those Ways Is That The Old Paradigm Suddenly Starts To Die.

Most People Believe That Aging Is Universal But There Are Biological Organisms That Never Age.

When Emotional Intelligence Merges With Spiritual Intelligence, Human Nature Is Transformed.

The Soul Is A Living, Dynamic Part Of Each Person. It Exists As Consciousness And Therefore Must Be Found In Consciousness.

The Highest Intention Comes From Love And Compassion ... When Our Intentions Come From A Place Of Love And Compassion Then We Have The Power Of The Universe.

Who Am I? Is The Only Question Worth Asking And The Only One Never Answered.

By Becoming A Conscious Choice-maker, You Begin To Generate Actions That Are Evolutionary For You.

Happiness Is The Ultimate Goal. It Is The Goal Of All Other Goals.

Find One Thing Every Day To Forgive The Other Person For. Don't Let Them Know What It Is...just Forgive Them And Let It Go.

The Key To Lasting Happiness Is To Stop Looking For It, And To Know That You Already Have It.

Lasting Happiness

Every Experience In Life Changes The Brain's Anatomy.

An Ancient Vedic Aphorism Says, "infinite Flexibility Is The Secret To Immortality." When We Cultivate Flexibility In Or Consciousness, We Renew Ourselves In Every Moment And Reverse The Aging Process.

Inherent In Every Intention And Desire Are The Mechanics For Its Fulfillment.

I Teach People That No Matter What The Situation Is, No Matter How Chaotic, No Matter How Much Drama Is Around You, You Can Heal By Your Presence If You Just Stay Within Your Center.

Seeing Yourself With The Eyes Of Love Makes It Natural To See The Divine Spirit In Everyone You Meet.

An Atom Is A Hierarchy Of Different States Of Information That Define The Statistical Likelihood Of Finding A Particle Here Or There At The Time Of Observation.

In The Face Of Nature's Overwhelming Forces, Humans Needed A God Who Would Protect Them From Harm. When They Felt That They Had Broken The Law Or Committed Wrongdoing, People Turned To A God Who Would Judge Them On The One Hand And Redeem Their Sins On The Other. In This Way, Purely From Slef-interest, The Project Of Creating God In Our Own Image Proceeded--and Continues To Proceed.

The First Spiritual Law Of Success Is The Law Of Pure Potentiality. This Law Is Based On The Fact That We Are, In Our Essential State, Pure Consciousness. Pure Consciousness Is Pure Potentiality; It Is The Field Of All Possibilities And Infinite Creativity. Pure Consciousness Is Our Spiritual Essence. Being Infinite And Unbounded, It Is Also Pure Joy. Other Attributes Of Consciousness Are Pure Knowledge, Infinite Silence, Perfect Balance, Invincibility, Simplicity, And Bliss. This Is Our Essential Nature. Our Essential Nature Is One Of Pure Potentiality.

Fear Is The Anticipation Of The Pain In The Future. Anger Is The Remembrance Of Pain In The Past. Hostility Is Wanting To Get Even.

I Think Where You're Born Brings A History With It - A Cultural History, A Mythical History, An Ancestral History, A Religious Context - And Certainly Influences Your Perception Of The World And How You Interpret Everyday Reality.

Optimism Invites Us To Reach Higher And Become The Fullest Expression Of Our Intentions

There Are Two Components To Biological Information In The Body, One Is Intention, The Other Is Attention.

When Mind, Body, And Spirit Are In Harmony, Happiness Is The Natural Result.

Before Making A Decision, Ask Inside For Guidance. Be Patient And Await An Answer. Act Only When You Feel Calm And Certain.

Now Take All These Qualities Together: Order, Balance, Evolution And Intelligence. What You Have Is A Description Of Love. It's Not The Popular Ideal, It Is The Wizard's Love - The Force That Upholds Life And Nurtures It.

To Limit Yourself To A Label Of "alcoholic" Is Masochistic And False If You Have Awakened A Deeper Spiritual Identity Within And Have Come To Know Your True Self As Unconditioned Pure Awareness. This Doesn't Mean That Recovering Alcoholics Don't Have To Be Concerned With Relapsing, They Must Always Remain Vigilant. The Power Of Addiction Should Not Be Underestimated. This Exercise In Vigilance Can Become A Spiritual Tool Of Liberation As Well. Always Being Aware Of Choosing Between Real Happiness And False Happiness Is Also The Discrimination Required To Attain Enlightenment.

Reality Isn't A Vast, Fixed Scheme Trapping You Without Choice. At Any Moment You Have The Choice To Break Out Of What Is Really Trapping You-your Automatic Reactions Dredged Up From The Past.

Skeptics Squat By The Road Like Guardians Of Truth, Letting No One Pass Who Doesn't Come Up To Scratch. They Never Realize That They Can See Only What Their Paradigm Tells Them To Look For. If You Judge A Person Only By How Well He Plays Pool, Mozart Won't Pass Scrutiny, But The Fault Is In Your Lens.

Connecting To The Feelings In Your Body Brings You Back Into Present-moment Awareness.

Your Soul Cherishes Every Aspect Of Your Life.

Healing Is The Return Of The Memory Of Wholeness. Healing, Health, Whole And Holy All Mean Inclusiveness. Body, Mind, Spirit, Environment, Relationships, Social Interactions Are All One Wholeness, And You're A Part Of That One Wholeness.

Everyone Has A Purpose In Life... A Unique Gift Or Special Talent To Give To Others.

If You Have Your Full Attention In The Moment, You Will See Only Love.

The World Is A Projection Of Our Collective Consciousness. If Our Collective Consciousness Reaches That Place Of Peace, Harmony, Laughter And Love, It Will Be A Different World.

Since The Universe Is In Constant And Dynamic Exchange, We Need To Both Give And Receive To Keep Abundance, Love And Anything Else We Want Circulating In Our Lives.

Obstacles Are Opportunities In Disguise.

We Are Born With Everything We Need For A Life Of Fulfilment And Success.

Human Nature Is Divided; It Contains Both Darkness And Light. You Can Choose To Accept The Darkness And Lament It, Or You Can Choose To Expand The Light Until The Darkness No Longer Dominates.

Desire Is What Leads You Through Life Until The Time Comes When You Desire A Higher Life. So Do Not Be Ashamed That You Want So Much, Yet At The Same Time Do Not Fool Yourself Into Thinking That What You Want Today Will Be Enough Tomorrow.

We Took Blood Samples And We Can Predict If Someone Is Doing Meditation Or Not.

The Deep Problem Facing Everyone Is How To Break Free When Being A Prisoner Is The Only Comfortable Way You Know How To Live.

Trust That You Are Connected To Your Being, Which Knows What To Do At All Times.

Delight Comes Only When Our Soul Dances And Plays With Another.

An Endangered Planet May Depend On The Evolution Of Consciousness.

Your Immune Cells Are Like A Circulating Nervous System. Your Nervous System In Fact Is A Circulating Nervous System. It Thinks. It’s Conscious.

Addiction Is The Number One Disease Of Civilization, And It's Directly And Indirectly Related To All Other Diseases. Besides Physical Addictions To Nicotine, Alcohol, And Other Substances, There Are Psychological Addictions, Such As The Addiction To Work, Sex, Television, Melodrama, And Perfection.

Seeking Can Become Stressful When You Apply The Same Laws That You Apply In The Material World - Hard Work, Exacting Plans, Driving Ambition, And Attachment To Outcome.

Every Present Moment Will Offer Itself As A Window Onto Eternity, A Doorway To The Infinite.

... Reality Stands Before Them, Yet They Don't See It, Because What You Call Real Is Just The Mirror Image Of Your Expectations.

People Who Become Great Leaders Are Those Who Take Time To Reflect Every Day On The Big Questions: Who Am I? What Is My Purpose? Who Are My Heroes In History, Mythology, And Religion? What Are My Unique Talents And How Do I Express Them? These Are The Qualities Of Silent Reflection That Make A Great Leader, Like Jesus.

The Joy In What I Do Is Mostly Creativity. I Think Creativity Is An Ecstatic Impulse That We All Have. And There's Nothing More Joyful Than Having A Moment Of Creative Insight And Actually Creating, Or Rather Manifesting Or Incarnating Your Creative Insight Into Actual, Physical Reality.

I Personally Do Not Believe In Strident Activism. I Do Not Believe In Moral Outrage, Because Even Moral Outrage Is Rage, And Rage Is Rage - It Adds To More Rage In The Collective Consciousness, If We Understand How Consciousness Works.

As Is The Microcosm, So Is The Macrocosm, As Is The Atom, So Is The Universe, As Is The Human Mind, So Is The Cosmic Mind.

Impulses Of Intelligence Constantly Create The Body In New Forms Every Second.

Being Joyful Is Our Natural State Of Being.

Life Is Like A Tree And Its Root Is Consciousness. Therefore, Once We Tend The Root, The Tree As A Whole Will Be Healthy.

You Are The Luminous Mystery In Which The Entire Universe With Its Forms And Phenomena Arises And Subsides. When This Realization Dawns There Is A Complete Transformation Of Your Personal Self Into Your Universal Self . . . The Complete Loss Of All Fear, Including Death. You Have Become A Being Who Radiates Love The Same Way The Sun Radiates Light. You Have Finally Arrived At The Place From Which Your Journey Began.

Who Am I? Is The Only Question Worth Asking And The Only One Never Answered. It Is Your Destiny To Play An Infinity Of Roles, But These Roles Are Not Yourself. The Spirit Is Non-local, But It Leaves Behind A Fingerprint, Which We Call A Body. A Wizard Does Not Believe Himself To Be A Local Event Dreaming Of A Larger World. A Wizard Is A World Dreaming Of Local Events.

It’s As If The Universe Has A Sense Of Humor, Since At A Deep Level It’s Impossible Not To Lead A Spiritual Life… The Universe Is Living Through You At This Moment. With Or Without Belief In God, The Chain Of Events Leading From Silent Awareness To Physical Reality Remains Intact.

Religion Is Believing Someone Else's Experience, Spirituality Is Having Your Own Experience.

Transcendental Meditation Is One Particular Form Of Mantra Meditation That Allows Your Mind To Experience Progressively Abstract Fields Of Awareness. And Ultimately You Settle Down In The Space Between Your Thoughts. The Space Between Your Thoughts Is Pure Consciousness, And It's A Field Of Possibilities. It's A Field Of Creativity. It's A Field Of Correlation. It's Also A Field Of Uncertainty. It's Also A Field Where Intention Actualizes Its Own Fulfillment. So That Meditation Allows You To Contact This Field, Which Is Very Primordial - The Ground State Of Our Existence.

If We Are Creating Ourselves All The Time, Then It Is Never Too Late To Begin Creating The Bodies We Want Instead Of The Ones We Mistakenly Assume We Are Stuck With.

Remember, Whatever We Put Our Attention On Expands In Our Experience, So Consider Where You Are Focusing Your Time And Energy.

If You Obsess Over Whether You Are Making The Right Decision, You Are Basically Assuming That The Universe Will Reward You For One Thing And Punish You For Another. The Universe Has No Fixed Agenda. Once You Make Any Decision, It Works Around That Decision. There Is No Right Or Wrong, Only A Series Of Possibilities That Shift With Each Thought, Feeling, And Action That You Experience.

Smile, Breathe, And Go Slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't Try To Steer The River.

Be Happy For No Reason, Like A Child.

We Can Shift From Time-bound Awareness Into Timeless Awareness . . . To The Ecstasy That Can Only Be Found In The Present Moment.

In The Tangled Hierarchy Sinner And Saint, Divine And Diabolical, Sacred And Profane Are Different Faces Of Our Collective Being. Therefore Angry Activism Driven By Rage, However Justified It Seems, Is Really Not Going To Work. I Believe That The Tangled Hierarchy Wants Us To Move To The Next State Of Evolution And Very Strongly Desires Us To Take That Quantum Leap Of Creativity.

Either You're A Person Wondering If You Have A Soul, Or You're A Soul Who Knows That Being A Person Isn't Real.

Your Brain Does Not Manufacture Thoughts. Your Thoughts Shape Neural Networks.

Soul Loss Is Regarded As The Most Serious Diagnosis And The Single Greatest Cause Of Premature Death Or Serious Illness By The Traditionals, And It's Not Even Mentioned In Our Western Medical Textbooks.

Serious Illness

People Think Meditation Is A Huge Undertaking.

Trending Author

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Robert Delaunay

Richard Hofstadter

Category