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The Needs the Soul Fills
Adapted from The Deeper Wound by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
Each of us has developed a strong belief in a false self built up from the ego. Ego is limited, constricted, clinging, acquisitive, closed off and afraid. Just listening to this list makes it hard to believe that anyone would owe their allegiance to these values, but consider how much behavior is motivated by them.
The true self is of immediate value because it can fulfill needs that the ego cannot. These needs are as follows:
The need for safety.
The need to belong.
The need to be acknowledged by others.
The need to matter.
The need to express yourself freely.
The need for love.
Desire and fulfillment are the natural rhythm of life. Each of these needs exists to be met. Your true self is already fulfilled, therefore when you merge with your true self, you will be able to feel completely wanted, safe, worthy and loved. Expressing yourself will come naturally and freely. You will matter more than you ever imagined.
The ego sees the same needs and feels the same desire, but it reaches outside for fulfillment.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH, I HAVE YOUR BOOK ON MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST
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It is a matter of believing what is real or not. That only the spirit matters and that we exist far beyond these bodies. We often forget that we are an amazing part of a whole matrix of existence that actually has no end, no barriers or substance as the human flesh perceives. The truth is that the reality is beyond all materialism. The truth is within us all in those naturally given gifts of healing and journeying to other places that our true selves can accomplish.
Thank you Deepak for awakening the truth in us all. We need only to truly hear and believe it and practice it.
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We all have our own truth. What may be true to one is not true to the other. You have to sort through the programming and find what is your truth and who you really are.
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Sometimes, on this journey, I feel like Neo in the Matrix, waking up from what for years, I percieved as reality,(the way our society works) only to find that society's way of thinking is not reality, it is something wholly different. Now, I am lucky. Because what truly IS, is more wonderful than ANYTHING our society percieves as real. I will look from outside and feel whole.
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Yes, I agree. Makes perfect sense to me...and it is flowing beautifully... Thank you, Deepak!
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Words that every human needs to hear. Especially for those raised in a society that teaches you to believe that you are not born whole and you need someone or something else to complete you.
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