Background Image

...

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.

-Deepak Chopra

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

The Intention Behind Our

Deepak Chopra

...

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.

Views: 83250

Topic

More From Deepak Chopra

This Is Real Freedom-the Ability To Enjoy The Choices We Make In Every Successive Moment Of The Present.

My True Self Contains Every Possibility.

In The Process Of Letting Go You Will Lose Many Things From The Past, But You Will Find Yourself.

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.

I Feel Genius In Great Works Of Art. I Have Seen Medical Cures That Science Can't Explain, Some Seemingly Triggered By Faith. The Same Is True Of Millions Of Other People.

The Best Use Of Imagination Is Creativity. The Worst Use Of Imagination Is Anxiety.

To Graciously Receive Is An Expression Of The Dignity Of Giving.

You Will Be Transformed By What You Read.

The More Expanded Your Sense Of Self, The More Possibilities Are Released From The Level Of The Soul.

If The Most You Can Do Right Now Is Walk Around The Block, Then Do That, And You Will Be Surprised How Quickly You Increase Your Endurance And Enthusiasm For Moving And Breathing.

Network Spinal Analysis Inspires Us To Trust The Healing Power Within.

Every Time You Are Tempted To React In The Same Old Way, Ask If You Want To Be A Prisoner Of The Past Or A Pioneer Of The Future.

Evolutionaries Is Going To Help Create A Worldview That Will Influence Our Vision Ofthe Future ... And Also Our Role In Consciously Participating In It.

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.

The Best Way To Get Rid Of The Pain Is To Feel The Pain. And When You Feel The Pain And Go Beyond It, You'll See There's A Very Intense Love That Is Wanting To Awaken Itself.

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

Living In The Present Moment Creates The Experience Of Eternity.

Live In The Moment

Laughter Is Humanity's Mechanism To Escape Suffering.

My Own Training Is In The Field Of Neuroendocrinology And I Really Became Very Fascinated Many Years Ago With The Molecules Of Emotion, Molecules That We Call Neuropeptides.

Although Yoga Is Commonly Portrayed As A Popular Fitness Trend, It's Actually The Core Of The Vedic Science That Developed In The Indus Valley More Than 5,000 Years Ago.

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

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.

The Trees Must Breathe So I Can Breathe.

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

The Most Effective Way To Transform Into Higher Consciousness Is To Pay Attention In The Present Moment.

Don't Eat Processed Food, Refined Food But Rather Organic Food From The Earth - Nothing With Genetically - Modified Ingredients.

According To This Law [the Law Of Dharma], You Have A Unique Talent And A Unique Way Of Expressing It. There Is Something That You Can Do Better Than Anyone Else In The Whole World--and For Every Unique Talent And Unique Expression Of That Talent, There Are Also Unique Needs. When These Needs Are Matched With The Creative Expression Of Your Talent, That Is The Spark That Creates Affluence. Expressing Your Talents To Fulfill Needs Creates Unlimited Wealth And Abundance.

You Are Not Merely The Physical Body That You Identify With Out Of Habit. Your Essential State Is A Field Of Infinite Possibilities.

The Intention To Live As Long As Possible Isn't One Of The Mind's Best Intentions, Because Quantity Isn't The Same As Quality.

Quality Not Quantity

What You Experience As "reality," Including Your Physical Body And Aging, Is Shaped By Your Habits Of Perception.

Laughter Allows Us To Get Past The Fear Of Death.

Money Is Life Energy That We Exchange And Use As A Result Of The Service We Provide To The Universe.

The Coexistence Of Opposites - Stillness And Dynamism - Makes You Independent... When You Quietly Acknowledge This Exquisite Coexistence Of Opposites, You Align Yourself With The World Of Energy - The Quantum Soup, The Non-material Non-stuff That Is The Source Of The Material World. This World Energy Is Fluid, Dynamic, Resilient, Changing, Forever In Motion. And Yet It Is Also Non-changing, Still, Quiet, Eternal And Silent.

The Ego Relies On The Familiar. It Is Reluctant To Experience The Unknown, Which Is They Very Essence Of Life.

The Body Is Holographic; Therefore, When You Change One Biomarker You Influence Them All.

Every Time You Have A Desire Come True, Some Part Of You Realizes It Did Not Have To Live In Limitation.

Enlightened Leadership Is Spiritual If We Understand Spirituality Not As Some Kind Of Religious Dogma Or Ideology But As The Domain Of Awareness Where We Experience Values Like Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Love And Compassion, And Also Intuition, Creativity, Insight And Focused Attention.

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

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.

All Our Technology - Whether We Use Fax Machines Or Computers Or Speak On Phones Or Watch Programs On Television - Is Based On The Premise That The Essential Nature Of The Material World Is Non-material.

A 70-year-old Who Takes Good Care Of Herself Can Have The Biology Of A 40-year-old. Conversely, A Hard-living 30-year-old Who Has Been Inattentive To His Health And Well-being May Have The Biology Of A Man Many Years Older.

The Main Thing To Do At The End Of The Day Is To Write In A Gratitude Journal All The Things That You Are Grateful For That Happened That Day. You Will Invite Even More Abundance Into Your Life.

Stop Repeating What Never Worked In The First Place. Stand Back And Ask For A New Solution.

Isolation And Loneliness Create The Conditions For Rapid Aging. The Key Is To Stay Connected And Open To New Relationships Throughout Your Life.

New Relationship

Tune Into The Presence Of Miracles, And In An Instant, Life Can Be Transformed Into A Dazzling Experience, More Wondrous And Exciting Than We Could Even Imagine.

Beyond The Mind, At The Deepest Level Of Consciousnesss, Resides The Spirit. This Is The Part Of Us That Is Eternal, Unchanging, And Imbued With Pure Unlimited Potential. Tapping Into This Potential Is What Enables Us To Manifest Miracles.

Unlimited Potential

You Break Free When You Feel Neither Beneath Anyone Nor Superior To Anyone, When You Shed The Need To Control Other People, When You Create Space For Others To Be Who They Are And For Your Real Self To Be What It Is.

Self-awareness Moves Us Beyond The Old, Well-worn Pathways In The Brain That Support Fixed, Unconscious Habits.

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

The Way Of Peace Is A Soul Journey. . . . If You Can Live From The Level Of Your Soul, You Are Doing Something Very Special. The Important Thing Is How Much Consciousness You Add To The Whole Of Human Existence, For That Is How Eternity Expresses Itself, Like A Lamp Shining Through The Window Of Eternity.

If You And I Are Having A Single Thought Of Violence Or Hatred Against Anyone In The World At This Moment, We Are Contributing To The Wounding Of The World.

The Goal Is To Be The Observer Of Your Thoughts And Not Let Your Thoughts Control You.

See The World As If For The First Time; See It Through The Eyes Of A Child, And You Will Suddenly Find That You Are Free.

Such A Person Needs Meditation More Than Anyone Else Because They Are Headed For A Crisis. If Stress And Anxiety Are So Great That You Can't Even Imagine A Calm Clear Mind, That Indicates You Are Reaching Your Coping Limits, And Need To Begin Something Like Meditation Just For The Stress Reduction Benefits.

We Need To Build Websites With Celebrity Speakers Who Talk About The Ideals Of Fairness, Sharing, Democratic Cooperation, And Altruism In Public Life.

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

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

Love Is Who You Are. Your True Self Is Pure Love, Infinite Awareness, And Unbounded Joy...as You Realize This, You Will Feel A Small Light In Your Heart. At First It Will Be The Size Of A Spark, Then A Candle Flame, Then A Raging Bonfire.

When You Do Not Have The Basic Requirements For Survival And Safety And Belongingness And Where There Are Huge Inequities Then Fear Turns Into Hatred.

Understand That If A Deep Desire Lives In Your Heart, A Dream That Is Part Of Your Soul's Fiber, A Path Exists To Bring It To Life.

I Want To Offer The Possibility That Jesus Was Truly, As He Proclaimed, A Savior. Not The Savior, Not The One And Only Son Of God. Rather Jesus Embodied The Highest Level Of Enlightenment.

There Are Periods In Life When You Get Caught Up In The Whole Field Of Relativity And Lose Your Moorings With The Absolute.

One Thing We Can Do Is Make The Choice To View The World In A Healthy Way. We Can Choose To See The World As Safe With Only Moments Of Danger Rather Than Seeing The World As Dangerous With Only Moments Of Safety.

In The Wisdom Of Uncertainty Lies The Freedom From Our Past, From The Known, From The Prison Of Past Conditioning. Uncertainty Is The Fertile Ground Of Creativity And Freedom.

You Accept Things As They Are, Not As You Wish They Were In This Moment...the Past Is History, The Future Is A Mystery, And This Moment Is A Gift. That Is Why This Moment Is Called The Present.

The Present Moment Is The Only Time That Is Eternal And The Only Time In Which We Can Experience Happiness.

Walk With Those Seeking Truth... Run From Those Who Think They've Found It.

It Is Easier To Wiggle The Toes Than Reset The Biological Clock, But That Is Just A Belief That Is Rooted In Superstition. If We Could Understand That The Human Body Is A Network Of Information And Energy, Then We Would See That The Same Principles Apply Everywhere In The Body.

Success, Wealth, Good Health And Nurturing Relationships Are By-products Of Happiness, Not The Cause.

Silence Is The Great Teacher And To Learn Its Lessons You Must Pay Attention To It. There Is No Substitute For The Creative Inspiration, Knowledge, And Stability That Come From Knowing How To Contact Your Core Of Inner Silence.

Here Are A Few Ways To Face A Habit And Say "no" To It: Go Outside Your Fixed Routine; Turn Off The Computer And The Television; Find A New Outlet For Your Down Time; Talk To Someone Who Holds A Viewpoint Contrary To Yours And Pay Respectful Attention, Really Listening.

Whatever You Put Your Attention On Becomes Energized. Whatever You Take Your Attention Away From Dwindles

Consciousness Is Nothing But Awareness The Composite Of All The Thing We Pay Attention To.

I Am Here To Serve. I Am Here To Inspire. I Am Here To Love. I Am Here To Live My Truth

Replace Your Self-defeating Thoughts With Self-supporting Thoughts.

Walk With Those Seeking Truth...

We Are Ripples Of Consciousness Of The Vast Ocean Of Consciousness. If We Get Agitated And Become Part Of The Reactionary And Vitriolic Behavior Sometimes Around Us, We Will Only Add To The Disturbance.

In The Deepest Realm Of Being, Is The Imagination Of Ourselves. What Is Your Next Evolutionary Leap? What Are You Imagining, (for Yourself) Right Now?

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.

For Nearly A Hundred Years, We Have Known That The Material World Is An Illusion. Everything That Seems Solid - A Rock, A Tree, Your Body - Is Actually 99.999% Empty Space.

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.

Consciousness Conceives, Governs, Constructs, And Becomes The Activity Of The Body.

Every Experience That We Have Is Unique To Us Because At Some Deep Level We Make An Interpretation Of It.

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

Inspiration Is That State In Which Mind And Heart Are Connected. When You Feel Inspired You Find Yourself Thrust Into A World Where Ordinary Objects And Events Are Full Of Light, As If Illuminated From Within. This Inner Light Is Truth, And When You Suddenly See The Truth, We Gain Insight, Clarity, And Joy.

Nothing Brings Down Walls As Surely As Acceptance.

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.

When You Are Exposed To Others' Negativity, You Do Not Need To Respond. You Can Choose To Put Your Attention Elsewhere And Let Their Words Be A Tiny Drop In The Infinite Ocean Of Your Peaceful Silence.

Health And Well-being Are The Natural State Of The Body And Mind.

Love Is The Ultimate Truth At The Heart Of The Universe And Transcends All Boundaries.

Law Of Attraction

Spirit Is Passionate; Without Passion No One Can Be Truly Spiritual.

That I Am Not My Experiences Is Very Obvious. I Am The One Who Is Having Those Experiences. Spirituality Has Nothing To Do With Experience.

I Do Not Believe In Meaningless Coincidences. I Believe Every Coincidence Is A Message, A Clue About A Particular Facet Of Our Lives That Requires Our Attention.

Every Action Generates A Force Of Energy That Returns To Us In Kind.

Intentions Are The Triggers For Transformation In The Body. If You Want To Wiggle Your Toes, You Do It Through Intention.

The World Sometimes Feels Like An Insane Asylum. You Can Decide Whether You Want To Be An Inmate Or Pick Up Your Visitor's Badge. You Can Be In The World But Not Engage In The Melodrama Of It; You Can Become A Spiritual Being Having A Human Experience Thoroughly And Fully.

The Same Faint Song Is Heard In Everything: "behold Yourself".

Through Silence, Through Meditation, And Through Non-judgment, You Will Access The First Law, The Law Of Pure Potentiality.

Judgment Is Guilt Wearing A Moral Mask To Disguise Its Pain.

Although We Take It For Granted, Sanitation Is A Physical Measure That Has Probably Done More To Increase Human Life Span Than Any Kind Of Drug Or Surgery.

Your Awareness Has Its Source In Unity. Instead Of Seeking Outside Yourself, Go To The Source To Realize Who You Are.

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.

Meditation Is The Progressive Quieting Of Our Mind, Until We Reach The Source Of Thought, Which In Wisdom Traditions Are The Realm Of Our Soul And Spirit. In This Domain Of Awareness There Is Infinite Creativity, Synchronicity, The Power Of Intention, And Freedom From Limitations.

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.

For Me And My Family Personally, September 11 Was A Reminder That Life Is Fleeting, Impermanent, And Uncertain. Therefore, We Must Make Use Of Every Moment And Nurture It With Affection, Tenderness, Beauty, Creativity, And Laughter.

Instead Of Asking "what’s The Problem?" Ask "what's The Creative Opportunity?

Anger Is Remembered Pain, Fear Is Anticipated Pain, Guilt Is Self Directed Pain, Depression Is Depletion Of Energy. Cure-return To Love& Joy

Your Mind Is The Knife That Cuts The Continuum Of Space And Time Into Neat Slices Of Linear Experience.

Approach Every Day As If It's A New World, Because It Is.

I Sing My Song For A Living, And I Don't Really Worry About Who Listens Or What They Think. But It Seems To Make A Living.

Each Of The Seven Chakras Are Governed By Spiritual Laws, Principles Of Consciousness That We Can Use To Cultivate Greater Harmony, Happiness, And Wellbeing In Our Lives And In The World.

Life Is Set Up To Bring You Every Needed Situation In Its Own Right Time.

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.

Marshall Rosenberg Provides Us With The Most Effective Tools To Foster Health And Relationships. Nonviolent Communication Connects Soul To Soul, Creating A Lot Of Healing. It Is The Missing Element In What We Do.

God Is The Evolutionary Impulse Of The Universe. God Is Infinite Creativity, Infinite Love, Infinite Compassion, Infinite Caring.

The Everyday Brain Could Be Dubbed "the Baseline Brain," Because It Operates At The Minimum Functioning To Keep You Alive And Healthy. It Controls Your Heart Rate, Your Blood Pressure, Your Immune Function, All Of Your Subconscious Impulses. That's Not A Minor Role; The Baseline Brain Is A Marvel Of Complexity And Efficiency. But Too Much Of It Is Devoted To Habits, Old Conditioning, Unconscious Reflexes, And Lack Of Self-awareness.

The More You Expand Your Awareness, The More Naturally You Will Be Present Without Effort.

Never Forget Your Real Identity. You Are A Luminous Conscious Stardust Being Forged In The Crucible Of Cosmic Fire.

My Colleagues Thought I Was An Embarrassment Because I Was Talking About Mind, Body, Spirit. So I Was Called A Quack. I Was Called A Fraud, Which I Initially Resented, But Then I Got Used To It.

We Are Attracted To People Who Have Traits We Want In Ourselves, And Usually We Are Unattracted To People With Traits That We Share.

We Must Go Beyond The Constant Clamor Of Ego, Beyond The Tools Of Logic And Reason, To The Still, Calm Place Within Us: The Realm Of The Soul.

Every Day, Take Some Time To Meditate And Cultivate Inner Quiet. Then Ask Yourself What I Call The "soul Questions": Who Am I? What Do I Want? What Is The Purpose And Meaning Of My Life?

Remain Open To As Much Input As Possible.

Your Biological Age Is A Critical Component In The Entire Aging Process, And Again, Can Be Very Different From Your Chronological Age.

The More Intimately You Come In Contact With Your Own Being, The Simpler Things Look And The Easier They Are To Deal With.

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.

Christ Wasn't A Christian And Buddha Wasn't A Buddhist And Muhammad Wasn't Muslim. These People Were Having The Experience Of Unity Consciousnesses And Universal Consciousness And They Spoke Of It In Words.

Aromatherapy Is Extremely Useful. If You Want To Go To Sleep At Night, And You Have An Aroma That Calms Your Mind, It Will Help You Sleep.

Some Western Biographies Are Apologist, And Do Not Portray The Negative Side At All.

To Bring Yourself Love And Happiness, Do What You Can To Bring Them To Others.

Happiness And Love

Technology Is Neutral. You Can Use [it] To Become Frenetic And To Go Out Of Your Mind. But You Can Also Use Technology To Relax And Improve Performance. Self-awareness Is Not Just Relaxation And Not Just Meditation. It Must Combine Relaxation With Activity And Dynamism. Technology Can Aid That.

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.

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

I Think We Will Never Find Ultimate Happiness. But I See A World Of Peace, Harmony, Laughter, Love And Non-violence And The Elimination Of Poverty.

The Struggle Is Part Of The Creative Process, And It's Very Enjoyable To Have The Struggle. Without The Struggle, There Would Be No Joy In Creativity. The One Thing That Is Not Enjoyable Is If You Get Attached To The Outcome. And If You're Constantly Looking For Approval And You Are Not Immune To Criticism, Then You Are In Trouble, And You Will Continue To Be Struggling And Never Find The Creative Impulse.

Instead Of Looking For A True Friend Become A True Friend.

What Keeps Life Fascinating Is The Constant Creativity Of The Soul.

Pursue Excellence; Ignore Success.

Nature Reflects The Moods Of The Wizard.

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

A Person Desperately Searching For Love," Merlin Said, "reminds Me Of A Fish Desperately Searching For Water.

Searching For Love

I'm Finding Myself Very Comfortable Talking To Medical Audiences, And Proving To Them That Underlying The Material Fields Of The Universe Are Force Fields.

Muhammad Is More Human, More Self-doubting, Even Self-tortured At Times. His Story Is Full Of Adventure, Intrigue, Betrayal.

The Higher Self Is Whispering To You Softly In The Silence Between Your Thoughts.

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.

Insight Enables You To Know Your Own Heart. Clarity Enables You To Accept Without Illusion.

If You Take The The Insults Of Your Fellow Human Beings Personally, You Will Be Offended For The Rest Of Your Life.

Rest Of Your Life

If We Stop Thinking Of Ourselves And Only Of Helping Others, You Will Start To See A Dramatic Improvement In The Suffering We Are All Going Through.

Meditation Is A Vital Way To Purify And Quiet The Mind, Thus Rejuvenating The Body.

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

Life Is The Coexistence Of All Opposite Values. Joy And Sorrow, Pleasure And Pain, Up And Down, Hot And Cold, Here And There, Light And Darkness, Birth And Death. All Experience Is By Contrast, And One Would Be Meaningless Without The Other.

Time Is Just Quantified Eternity.

Most People Believe That Aging Is Normal But Nobody Defines What Normal Aging Is.

Even 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.

The Deeper Meaning And Gift Of Yoga Is The Path It Offers Us Into The Timeless, Spaceless World Of Spirit.

Commit Yourself To Deeper Awareness. Be Generous Of Spirit. Embrace Every Day As A New World. Let The Timeless Be In Charge Of Time.

The Ego, However, Is Not Who You Really Are. The Ego Is Your Self-image; It Is Your Social Mask; It Is The Role You Are Playing. Your Social Mask Thrives On Approval. It Wants Control, And It Is Sustained By Power, Because It Lives In Fear.

Command And Control

We Can Most Easily Fulfill Our Desires When Our Actions Are Motivated By Love. We Expand The Least Effort, And We Offer No Resistance. We Tap Into The Infinite Organizing Power Of The Universe To Do Less And Accomplish Everything.

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.

The Universe Contains Three Things That Cannot Be Destroyed; Being, Awareness And Love

People Think Meditation Is A Huge Undertaking.

However Good Or Bad You Feel About Your Relationship, The Person You Are With At This Moment Is The "right" Person, Because He Or She Is The Mirror Of Who You Are Inside.

Your 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.

Nothing Could Be Closer Than The Present, Yet Nothing Slips Away Faster.

Religion Has Failed Us. Christ Was Not A Christian. Buddha Was Not A Buddhist. Mohammed Was Not A Mohammedan. And Yet Ever Since The Dawn Of History, We Have Engaged In Conflict And War And Terrorism And Murder And Racism And Ethnocentrism And Bigotry And Prejudice In The Name Of God.

Today I Want To Belong. I Want To Feel Safe And At Home. I Want To Be Aware Of What It Is Like Simply To Be, Without Defenses Or Desires. I Will Appreciate The Flow Of Life For What It Is-my Own True Self. I Will Notice Those Moments Of Intimacy With Myself, When I Feel That “i Am” Is Enough To Sustain Me Forever. I Will Lie On The Grass At One With Nature, Expanding Until My Being Fades Into The Infinite.

It Helps If You Remember That Everyone Is Doing Their Best From Their Level Of Consciousness.

If You Restore Balance In Your Own Self, You Will Be Contributing Immensely To The Healing Of The World.

Reality Is Modest, It Won't Be Seen Naked.

The Symbolic Language Of The Crucifixion Is The Death Of The Old Paradigm; Resurrection Is A Leap Into A Whole New Way Of Thinking.

Being Fully In The Present, You Experience The Timeless. In The Timeless, You Find Your True Self.

If You Have A Happy Friend, Your Happiness Goes Up Fifteen Times.

Don't Simply Dismiss A Coincidence And Let It Drift Away. Life Is Totally Interconnected. These Unusual 'things' Are Simply Connections That Surprise You Because You Aren't Used To Seeing Life Except In Fragments. Now It Is Beginning To Piece Itself Together.

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

The Body Must Be Credited With An Immense Fund Of Know-how.

Accept What Comes To You Totally & Completely So That You Can Appreciate It, Learn From It & Then Let It Go.

Everything Is The Same Spirit Watching Itself Through The Eyes Of Different Observers.

Most Of Us Have No Idea What We Can Do Because We Are Totally Conditioned By The Past. Our Memories, Beliefs, Assumptions, Prejudices, And Stresses Conspire To Trap Us In One Boundary After Another. We Need To Escape From This.

You Can Lead Your Brain And Inspire It. You Can Actively Shape New Neural Pathways.

We Must Go Beyond The Intellect And Find Recourse In Pure Intelligence, Which Is Spirit And Movement.

As A Physician Who Was Smoking A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day, Getting Drunk On Weekends, Stressed Out About Having 35 Patients In The Hospital, And Not Being Able To Help Either Them Or Myself, I Had My Existential Crisis Way Before I Met Maharishi. I Did Meet Him And He Was An Influence, But I Met Many Other People As Well.

Commitment Is The Ultimate Assertion Of Human Freedom. It Releases All The Energy You Possess And Enables You To Take Quantum Leaps In Creativity. When You Set A One-pointed Intention And Absolutely Refuse To Allow Obstacles To Dissipate The Focused Quality Of Your Attention, You Engage The Infinite Organizing Power Of The Universe.

Consciousness Regulates And Becomes The Flow Of Energy And Information In Your Body, Your Relationships, And Your World.

Every Experience In Life Changes The Brain's Anatomy.

Our Intentions Attract The Elements And Forces, The Events, The Situation, The Circumstances And The Relationships Necessary To Fulfill The Intended Outcome. We Don't Need To Become Involved In The Details-in Fact, Trying Too Hard May Backfire. Let The Non-local Intelligence Synchronize The Actions Of The Universe To Fulfill Your Intentions For You.

Law Of Attraction

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

Modern Medicine, For All Its Advances, Knows Less Than 10 Percent Of What Your Body Knows Instinctively.

Access To Your True Essence Will Give You Insight Into The Mirror Of Relationship, Because All Relationship Is A Reflection Of Your Relationship With Yourself.

Every Desire Of Yours That Comes True Brings You A Little Closer To Seeing That What You Wanted Exists Nowhere But In You.

Law Of Attraction

Replace 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.

Knowledge Has Organizing Power Inherit In It. It Is Simply Enough To Know.

People 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.

Real Bliss Is To Have Peace Of Mind.

The Quality Of One's Life Depends On The Quality Of Attention.

We Americans Sit At The Head Of The Banquet Table, As We Have Done For A Century. Our Standard Of Living Is Luxurious By Any Measure.

To Have Passion, To Have A Dream, To Have A Purpose In Life. And There Are Three Components To That Purpose, One Is To Find Out Who You Really Are, To Discover God, The Second Is To Serve Other Human Beings, Because We Are Here To Do That And The Third Is To Express Your Unique Talents And When You Are Expressing Your Unique Talents You Lose Track Of Time.

What Comes Deep Comes True.

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

Just As Light Brightens Darkness, Discovering Inner Fulfillment Can Eliminate Any Disorder Or Discomfort. This Is Truly The Key To Creating Balance And Harmony In Everything You Do

Separate The Story - Your Story - From Facts.

Trending Author

Ezra Taft Benson

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Gennifer Flowers

Category