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- Deepak Chopra
- August 15, 2011
- 5:01 am
- 48 comments
When you meditate, you shift your focus. Instead of paying attention to the surface of the mind, which teems with constant change, you go deeper to experience silence. In and of itself, silence is pointless. Life is about action and response, not silent detachment. But inner silence is something far more profound: It is awareness being aware of itself, also known as wakefulness, or mindfulness.
In its silent depths, your mind knows everything that’s going on. Time collapses into a single focal point, where the one unshakable thing you know is “I am.” This isn’t passive knowledge. It is the center of everything, the source of all the activity that springs forth as thoughts, sensations, and external events. Silence is the womb of creation.
Once you have authorship of yourself, you come out of silence into activity to write your own story. There is no difference between sitting in meditation and living in the world. Both are expressions of awareness, the one silent, and the other active. Now you maintain two types of attention, one devoted to change, the other to non-change. This is the shift in consciousness that allows you to live from the level of the soul.
Meditating 24 hours a day means you retain your alertness and wakefulness all the time.
Adapted from Why is God Laughing? by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).
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Deepak Chopra
Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Chopra is known as a prolific author of over 49 books with 12 best sellers on mind-body health, quantum mechanics, spirituality, and peace. A global force in the field of human empowerment, Dr. Chopra's books have been published in more than 35 languages with more than 20 million copies in print.
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48 comments
+ add your ownInteresting!
Thank you :)
Nice.
True.
suzanne l is right. shuttingoff is gud. I find it so so hard to do this. my nerves are in shreds.
On and off!
Learning to be silent and still sometimes gives the nervous system a well-deserved break.
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beautifully written thankyou. The Power of Stillness!
Deepak didn't mention the bliss you experience and the knowing smile you carry with you afterwards.....
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