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The Artist of Your World
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace, by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).
There is an ancient saying from India about the soul: “Fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it, wind cannot dry it, weapons cannot cleave it. It’s ancient, it’s unborn, it never dies.” The soul is the source of all unreality, but the domain of the soul is beyond your everyday reality. That’s why you need to experience the domain of your soul to stay in touch with your soul, to experience the qualities of the real you.
How do you experience the domain of your soul? By spending time in silence, by quieting the time-bound conversation in your head and tuning in to the timeless, peaceful quiet of your soul. When you experience complete silence in your body-mind, then you recognize that you are not your thoughts but the Being who is having the thoughts.
Slowly, by spending time in silence, you notice that the scenery comes and goes, but the seer is always there. You realize that you are not the scenery; you are the seer, the witness of the scenery. As you shift your identify from the scenery to the seer, everything starts to slowly awaken. You glimpse the soul, and you begin to experience more expansive states of consciousness: Cosmic consciousness, divine consciousness, unity consciousness.
You begin to realize that you are painting the scenery. In the past you did it unconsciously, randomly, chaotically. Now, like a great Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, you consciously create a masterpiece that influences your destiny and the destiny of others.
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add your comment »"There is an ancient saying from India about the soul: “Fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it, wind cannot dry it, weapons cannot cleave it. It’s ancient, it’s unborn, it never dies.”" That's not an "ancient saying", it's a quote from the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.
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Is it shift your identity? in the very wise piece. I agree very whole heartedly. Thank you for sharing.
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Even if you don't talk it is thoughts that do the talking and you listen,lament,regret,retreat and get dismayed.A silencing process is not a panacea but a beginning at looking inward and finding the bliss that was hiding. wonderful thought.
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Even if you don't talk it is thoughts that do the talking and you listen,lament,regret,retreat and get dismayed.A silencing process is not a panacea but a beginning at looking inward and finding the bliss that was hiding. wonderful thought.
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"I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease,
observing a spear of summer grass."
(From Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
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Thank you
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I love silence. I've always loved/needed quiet silence. Now I understand why...but it has not been helpful in finding a mate because most people need chronic noise! Thank you Deepak
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I have learnd about the soul by working with victims of human trafficking (modern slavery). I have also learned from the traffickers and the ways they steal the souls and leave the body alive to work.
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