Total Meditation
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Highlights
- the awakened life. (Location 48)
- The things that are going to happen to you today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life will no longer fall into predictable patterns. Every day will bring the experience of newness and creativity—if (Location 50)
- What makes a person truly happy? (Location 52)
- Everyone structures their happiness within a lifestyle. From day to day we make individual choices about things we’d like to do. (Location 56)
- The trends causing ever increasing loads of stress include: (Location 66)
- A faster and faster pace of living A deluge of distractions, including the Internet and video games Increasing rates of aging and dementia Rampant consumerism, spreading to more and more countries Dislocation and crumbling of traditional families An epidemic of anxiety and depression Global problems such as climate change, terrorism, pandemics, and refugeeism Collapse of trust in public institutions and politics Runaway disparity between rich and poor, along with racial disparity and injustice (Location 68)
- The best lifestyle can be described in a single phrase: waking up. (Location 86)
- Or, in other words, to be aware of everything (Location 86)
- around you. (Location 86)
- devoting yourself to going beyond the everyday routines that people live by, (Location 87)
- the expectations we cling to, and the agenda of the ego. (Location 88)
- Waking up is about higher consciousness, (Location 88)
- Nothing can be changed in your life unless you first become aware of it. (Location 92)
- What you can do with awareness will literally change every part of your life. (Location 93)
- reality (Location 95)
- perceived as a field of unlimited possibilities. (Location 95)
- We are trapped at a level of consciousness that fuels chaos and confusion, (Location 96)
- let’s imagine that a stranger, a clear-eyed, clairvoyant observer of human nature, followed you around today. (Location 99)
- a considerable portion of our day is spent being a robot of routine, repetition, and habit. (Location 112)
- The process of waking up, (Location 114)
- needs to become continuous. (Location 115)
- to become a lifestyle, (Location 115)
- “Don’t just sit there, do something.” (Location 137)
- “Don’t just do something, sit there.” Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there. (Location 137)
- What’s really at stake is making the decision to wake up, here and now. (Location 142)
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- Meditation involves transformation. (Location 150)
- aim to answer one (Location 152)
- question: Can existence take care of itself? (Location 152)
- if the answer is yes, a new life awaits everyone. (Location 155)
- In an average lifetime the heart beats a billion times, (Location 157)
- No computer can be turned on a billion times and no airplane take off a billion times without (Location 159)
- mechanical failure. (Location 160)
- a shrew’s heart, which beats 1,000 times a minute, or a hummingbird’s, which can reach 1,250 beats per minute. (Location 161)
- The wonder is, their hearts work effortlessly, too. (Location 162)
- organs—skin, heart, lungs, liver, brain—remains in balance and harmony quite effortlessly. (Location 163)
- But as we go about our daily activities, we rarely experience effortless harmony, either inside ourself or between ourself and others. (Location 164)
- meditation is a journey and not just a calm break from one’s daily routine. (Location 168)
- We will be stirred from a state of virtual sleep (Location 172)
- The awakened life is energetic and fully conscious, erasing the woes that so often arise through our unconscious ways. (Location 174)
- The first step is realizing that awareness in some form is always present. (Location 176)
- Thinking (in essence, judging) isn’t the mind’s true character. Awareness is. (Location 177)
- In the background of everything you do, the heart beats ceaselessly. In the background (Location 177)
- of everything you think, awareness watches ceaselessly (Location 178)
- We take both for granted, (Location 178)
- Meditation is practically the only human endeavor that explores the mind when it has no thoughts. (Location 185)
title: “Total Meditation”
author: “Deepak Chopra”
url: ""
date: 2023-12-19
source: kindle
tags: media/books
Total Meditation
Metadata
Highlights
- the awakened life. (Location 48)
- The things that are going to happen to you today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life will no longer fall into predictable patterns. Every day will bring the experience of newness and creativity—if (Location 50)
- What makes a person truly happy? (Location 52)
- Everyone structures their happiness within a lifestyle. From day to day we make individual choices about things we’d like to do. (Location 56)
- The trends causing ever increasing loads of stress include: (Location 66)
- A faster and faster pace of living A deluge of distractions, including the Internet and video games Increasing rates of aging and dementia Rampant consumerism, spreading to more and more countries Dislocation and crumbling of traditional families An epidemic of anxiety and depression Global problems such as climate change, terrorism, pandemics, and refugeeism Collapse of trust in public institutions and politics Runaway disparity between rich and poor, along with racial disparity and injustice (Location 68)
- The best lifestyle can be described in a single phrase: waking up. (Location 86)
- Or, in other words, to be aware of everything (Location 86)
- around you. (Location 86)
- devoting yourself to going beyond the everyday routines that people live by, (Location 87)
- the expectations we cling to, and the agenda of the ego. (Location 88)
- Waking up is about higher consciousness, (Location 88)
- Nothing can be changed in your life unless you first become aware of it. (Location 92)
- What you can do with awareness will literally change every part of your life. (Location 93)
- reality (Location 95)
- perceived as a field of unlimited possibilities. (Location 95)
- We are trapped at a level of consciousness that fuels chaos and confusion, (Location 96)
- let’s imagine that a stranger, a clear-eyed, clairvoyant observer of human nature, followed you around today. (Location 99)
- a considerable portion of our day is spent being a robot of routine, repetition, and habit. (Location 112)
- The process of waking up, (Location 114)
- needs to become continuous. (Location 115)
- to become a lifestyle, (Location 115)
- “Don’t just sit there, do something.” (Location 137)
- “Don’t just do something, sit there.” Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there. (Location 137)
- What’s really at stake is making the decision to wake up, here and now. (Location 142)
- Meditation involves transformation. (Location 150)
- aim to answer one (Location 152)
- question: Can existence take care of itself? (Location 152)
- if the answer is yes, a new life awaits everyone. (Location 155)
- In an average lifetime the heart beats a billion times, (Location 157)
- No computer can be turned on a billion times and no airplane take off a billion times without (Location 159)
- mechanical failure. (Location 160)
- a shrew’s heart, which beats 1,000 times a minute, or a hummingbird’s, which can reach 1,250 beats per minute. (Location 161)
- The wonder is, their hearts work effortlessly, too. (Location 162)
- organs—skin, heart, lungs, liver, brain—remains in balance and harmony quite effortlessly. (Location 163)
- But as we go about our daily activities, we rarely experience effortless harmony, either inside ourself or between ourself and others. (Location 164)
- meditation is a journey and not just a calm break from one’s daily routine. (Location 168)
- We will be stirred from a state of virtual sleep (Location 172)
- The awakened life is energetic and fully conscious, erasing the woes that so often arise through our unconscious ways. (Location 174)
- The first step is realizing that awareness in some form is always present. (Location 176)
- Thinking (in essence, judging) isn’t the mind’s true character. Awareness is. (Location 177)
- In the background of everything you do, the heart beats ceaselessly. In the background (Location 177)
- of everything you think, awareness watches ceaselessly (Location 178)
- We take both for granted, (Location 178)
- Meditation is practically the only human endeavor that explores the mind when it has no thoughts. (Location 185)