Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called “measurement problem” of.
A crazy man calls himself a king. I call myself Queen of the Nile, but the last time I looked there isn’t a crown under my pillow.
The ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads declare, “You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.” Our destiny ultimately comes from the deepest level of desire and also from the deepest level of intention. The two are intimately linked to each other.
Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said, “You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.
Chopra concludes his work with, “Your goal and mine isn’t to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him – -or, as he said, to abide in him.
No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you. In the title Shiva Sutra, the word Shiva means “God” and the word Sutra means “thread,” so quite deliberately the reader is being shown tiny threads that lead back to the eternal source.
You can intend for things to be different in the future, but in this moment, accept things as they are.
A third way to put the Law of Least Effort into action is to practice defenselessness. This means relinquishing the need to convince others of your point of view. By doing this, you gain access to enormous amounts of energy that have previously been wasted.
On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this desperation is repression, a sense that you cannot be what you want to be, cannot feel what you want to feel, cannot do what you want to do.
We are placed here in this world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a staggering one.
We all owe emotional debts to the past, in the form of feelings we couldn’t allow ourselves to express. The past isn’t over as long as these debts go unpaid. You don’t have to return to the person who made you angry or afraid, with the intention of revising how the past turned out. For that person, the impact can never be the same as it is for you. The purpose of getting rid of emotional debt is to find your place in the present.
Magic is attracted to good or bad and intensifies them. It fans the sparks that already lie in a man’s character. The real power lies in the silence of your heart.
We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won’t be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.
Everyone creates the world they perceive, and we all perceive according to impressions fixed in the past.
Today, give somebody a response instead of a reaction.
We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.
That’s why, if you really want to break out of the mundane, you must learn to think and dream the impossible. Only with repeated thoughts can the impossible be made possible through the intention of the nonlocal mind.
The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we’ve all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn’t fit our ingrained belief system.
You will never trust your intuition until you identify with it. Self-esteem enters here.