"If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules."
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"If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world."
"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
"Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear."
"Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence."
"Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa."
"The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away."
"In every failure lies the seeds of success."
"The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything."
"Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box."
"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."
"Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy."
"When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power."
"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."
"If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!"
"When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint."
"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success."
"It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed."
"Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here."