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Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
Deepak Chopra
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Real solutions to a crisis come from expanded awareness.
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LEVEL 3: PURE A
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As the first step to reaching a solution, it is critical to break down any problem until you reach the aspects in your awareness that are feeding the problem.
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Questioning your perception gives you distance from a problem, and with distance comes objectivity.
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Expectations: What you expect from other people is linked to desire or fear.
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Negative expectations are ruled by fear,
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Because desire and fear lie close to the surface of the mind, your expectations are more active than your beliefs and assumptions.
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Depriving someone of what they expect directly challenges how they live.
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Feelings: As much as we try to disguise them, our feelings lie on the surface; other people see them or sense them as soon as they meet us.
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accepting your feelings. With acceptance comes responsibility. Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. If
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With
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acceptance comes responsibility. Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. If
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If
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third level of awareness, which I’ve labeled
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pure awareness.
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Dynamism is universal.
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isolation is a myth.
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pure awareness lies at the basis of
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everything, the most powerful way to change your life is to begin with your awareness. When your consciousness changes, your situation will change.
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Every situation is both
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visible and invisible.
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Life flows from within itself, and seizing on any kind of rigid or fixed position is contrary to life.
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success is the result of a series of good decisions.
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How you deal with the unknown determines how well you make choices.
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contracted awareness.
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By its very nature, contracted awareness is rigid, defensive, limited in scope, and dependent on the past.
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For each factor that holds you back, the solution is to expand your awareness, leaving limitation behind to discover a clearer vision of the problem.
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The solution: Take into account only the information that affects success or failure.
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ego is almost as bad in decision-making
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as fear.
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look out for the whole situation.
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Understand yourself completely. It is futile to seek to be completely
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understood by others.
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To truly understand yourself is to know the true self.
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acquire a trait that protects you from fickleness, illusion, self-indulgence, and loss of motivation.
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sobriety.
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Sobriety is a combination of serious intent and realism.
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Maturity is a psychological state, not a physical one. It involves things like emotional balance, self-reliance, moderation, and the possession of foresight.
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society now devalues maturity.
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A vision is broader than a purpose. It embraces a worldview, which implies action.
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Look beyond everyday events to their higher meaning.
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Question your habits of consumption.
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trusting in the universe or God to take care of you.
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Appreciate the present moment. See others around you as reflections of your inner reality.
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Being in the world but not of it has to be real, not simply an ideal.
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The things you consider most important draw your attention, and in essence they become your world, your reality.
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single-minded focus can be called first attention.
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transcends the physical world,
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Spiritual detachment means that you view the world from a timeless place.
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meditation, contemplation, and self-reflection.
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Hang loose
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a reality that is timeless, without boundaries, and infinite in its possibilities.
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Stop generalizing.
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When a feeling is so painful that you can’t bear to look at it, it acts like an electric fence.
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The very prospect of touching it, which is the real solution to any feeling, becomes a deterrent.
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reclaim your freedom of choice.
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your shadow—the darkest aspect of the unconscious mind—is trying to tell you something.
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the shadow always does the same thing: it keeps you in a fog of illusion.
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by seeing so many sides to every question, the urgency to do anything evaporates.
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moving physically in a positive way.
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Set aside one hour each day to do something that you enjoy a great deal. Don’t skip this hour. Don’t fill it in with eating, cooking, or television. What you want is an inner sense of creative satisfaction.
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personal connection
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The solution is to keep making it easier to overcome your resistance. If you could
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Right now you have a space inside that contains the following: regret, disappointment, nostalgia for better times, hope for the future, anxiety over the future, self-esteem, and self-doubts. In other words, there’s a disorganized tangle of conflicts.
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Shadow energies are coming up to make you feel afraid.
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You need to create space for clarity, inspiration, and new beginnings.
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Look at yourself as if you were another person—someone you know well who needs sound, rational advice. What would you tell her? Being objective helps to clear out the confused swirl of emotions that tug one way and another day after day.
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take steps, however small, to get out of crisis mode.
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shadow self.
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spirit is about awareness, and as long as you know that, the opportunity for expanded consciousness
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1. Am I depressed and sick of my life? 2. Am I drifting because I know something perfect is waiting just over the horizon? 3. Is today going the way I want it to? 4. When I look around, does my life tell me who I am? What do I see in the reflection of the outer world? 5. If I could jump ahead five years and meet myself, who would I meet?
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find a set of core values by which to live.
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The reality you seek is as close as breathing.
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