Quotes by Deepak Chopra (Page 3 of 5)

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You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

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Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

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The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now -- this very instant.

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If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

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Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself.

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It'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.

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Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

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Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

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I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call Democracy will be Netocracy, where people, globally, can work on issues.

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The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

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By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

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If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

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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.

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Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

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The accumulation of toxins in the body mind system accelerates aging.

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When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

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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.

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When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

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When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.

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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.

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There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

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One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

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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.

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I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

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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.

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To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

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I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

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The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

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I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

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What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

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The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

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Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

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In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

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The reason why life is a sleep and dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future and not with what is.

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A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

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We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

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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.

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During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

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When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness.

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If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.

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When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

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Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

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I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.

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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.

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It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

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Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

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In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

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The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

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The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

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A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

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At the very instant that you think, I am happy, a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material world, into a bit of matter so perfectly attuned to your desire that literally every cell in your body learns of your happiness and joins in.

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Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

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A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.

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Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

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The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.

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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.

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Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

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When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.

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Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

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The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

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Focus on nurturing your healthy relationships so that they are even more loving and fulfilling.

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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.

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When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.

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We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life.

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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.

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It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones.

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Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

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Quantum 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.

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Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

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Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.

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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.

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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.

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We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ--with no side effects.

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Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.

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Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

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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.

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There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.

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Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

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Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

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Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

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A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

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The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

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The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body mind and reverse the aging process.

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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.
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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.

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You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

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What you experience as reality, including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

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Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

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Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.

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We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

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Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

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Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness.

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The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

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Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

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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.

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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.

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If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality -- where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

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A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent) in each meal. Along with the six tastes, filling your plate with the colors of the rainbow promotes a long and healthy life.

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The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

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Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

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One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

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Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

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Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down.

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Had a powerful meditation just now -- caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra and earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

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Space and time are sensed not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

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Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

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Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

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Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

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I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

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When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity -- not occasionally, but all the time -- then we will know the true meaning of success.

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Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

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Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

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Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of self-awareness, which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.

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Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

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True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

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Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

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Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

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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.

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Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

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Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.
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