Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.
Deepak ChopraWhat gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Deepak ChopraThe interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.
Deepak ChopraTranscendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately you settle down in the space between your thoughts. The space between your thoughts is pure consciousness, and it's a field of possibilities. It's a field of creativity. It's a field of correlation. It's also a field of uncertainty. It's also a field where intention actualizes its own fulfillment. So that meditation allows you to contact this field, which is very primordial - the ground state of our existence.
Deepak ChopraThe themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.
Deepak Chopra