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Open Yourself to the Unknown
Who you think you are is not real but a concoction of past events, desires, and memories. This concoction has a life of its own–it motors forward through time and space experiencing only those things that it knows. A new experience isn’t really new; it’s just a slight twist on very familiar sensations.
To open yourself to the unknown means cutting the ground out from under your familiar reactions and habits. Notice how often the same words come out of your mouth, the same likes and dislikes dictate what you do with your time, the same people fill your life with routine.
All of this familiarity is like a shell. The unknown is outside the shell, and to encounter it, you have to be willing to welcome it in.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004)
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IF WHO WE THINK WE ARE IS NOT REAL,WHAT IS REAL?CAN OUR CONCEPT OF REAL NOT BE A CONTINUUM; AN EVERCHANGING REALITY BASED ON NEW LEARNING ,AN EVOLVING AWARENESS THAT WE ARE MORE THAN OUR CURRENT PERCEPTION OF OUR UNIQUE "BEING"?
Yes, I understand the time/space rules to reality,.
My statement merrallily ask that any all varialbes wait their trun or just function in a rationable order.
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Ordinarilleee....I would comment on this...but...I'm not that person anymooor
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When you truly tap into what you really are, recognizing it step by step, then you do not need to have fear or create apparent limitations. YeS... it is a process, because we have learn to live with FeaR. We live expecting approval of others forgetting that: truth starts with in ourselves. You already are, all you need to do is to recognize it. Then the unknown becomes something you already know that you knew. We give so much content to fear and limitations, that they start to incubate in our minds an suddenly we get use to live with them, not being loyal with what we really desire.
Every being has it process and whatever step you take, although it seems small is a huge step towards you.
Let us get amaze every instant with the expression of life and be happiness itself expressing through it.
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Lately I catch myself telling myself something I believe to be true about my self. I am not coordinated enough to try that. I am too shy to do this. Like tastes in food or music, we change and grow our abilities as well. Saying yes to new things is the only way to expand beyond our current comfort zone.
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IF WHO WE THINK WE ARE IS NOT REAL,WHAT IS REAL?CAN OUR CONCEPT OF REAL NOT BE A CONTINUUM; AN EVERCHANGING REALITY BASED ON NEW LEARNING ,AN EVOLVING AWARENESS THAT WE ARE MORE THAN OUR CURRENT PERCEPTION OF OUR UNIQUE "BEING"?
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Stepping out of the thoughts and stepping into the now...
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Yes this is true, prisons are internal and external, connections are essential and rewarding, alas, my prison is deep and hard to escape, yet, being aware of the presence of a self contained state is interesting...slowly I become aware of a trapped child inside a cocoon of barriers errected to contain and preserve self identity since identity can be trapped very early in life and is absolutly nothing to do with karma or luck, but, a bigger prison represented by the social inequality of controlling systems on human development...human rights are a load of s..., in the post code lottery ofself fullfilment, just a method controller use to create animals to fight wars..my inclination is to start war in retaliation...since words are most certainly weapons if used efficiently...yet , in understanding self more, awareness of collective potential is a magnificent structure of unity...the irony of the world is its inability to see it's own potential, a reflection on the self...war is cheap, corrupt and unjustified, to the edifice of truth...all stars should be lit in this universe and not just the ones in superior amnesia of collective potential...all stars are equal...the brightest stars are not always the most significant, the only significance is that all stars have the potential to shine and non should be impeded from doing so...all brains and bodies are equal, common and wasted...lost between planes of miscomprehension between this world, the one before and the next.
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Only the very lucky among us will understand the importance of breaking out of that shell! Let's L-I-V-E!
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Yes,But not all at once.Please.
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Thank you Deepak..I am ready for it.
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