Inspirational quotes by Deepak Chopra

"What society thinks of as reality today is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. It is the melodrama of a humdrum existence, filled with trite obsessions and trivial pursuits, wherein our only fate is to be born, grow old, and die. …[Yet] if we could just realize it, the keys to the miracle of life lie in our own consciousness. …[That is when] life will bestow miracles on us, when we begin to see it as an expression of the miraculous. Life itself is a miracle. We are here and now- that is a miracle. …Life is magical, mysterious, wondrous, and miraculous. Lose the magic, and you lose life. It becomes dull and joyless. When you have flashes of wonder, that is the wizard's touch. The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity."

Deepak Chopra (The Return of Merlin)

“If you have your attention on what is, see its fullness in every moment, you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf, in every petal, in every blade of grass, in every rainbow, in every rushing stream, in every breath of every living being. ...beyond memory and judgement lies the ocean of universal consciousness.”

Deepak Chopra (Return of Merlin, intro)

Which is to say, that if, epistemologically, we give up ‘reason’, so as to embrace the unreasonable, then we must also, ontologically, give up ‘the reason’ we do things, so as to “...escape the prison of the known.”, as Deepak Chopra unequivocally states.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.