Deepak ChopraFreedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.
About This Quote
I am a person who likes to go with the flow. I am not a person who likes to make waves or change things up. If I am going somewhere, I want to go there peacefully and without disturbances. However, there are times when I must make a conscious effort to change my point of view and steer the river in a different direction.
I do it because there is one thing that always works. It is sometimes necessary for me to look reality in the eye and realize that something is right in front of me that I cannot change. If I try to change something that is working just fine, then I will only get myself into trouble.
It is not out of fear that I steer the river; it is out of love for what it has become while continuing on its natural course.
Source: Golf For Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons For The Game Of Life
Some Similar Quotes
- There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
- Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
- He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
- You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
- From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that...
More Quotes By Deepak Chopra
- When you make a choice, you change the future.
- Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
- What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
- The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
- Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.