Metahuman Quotes

“According to an ancient Upanishad, the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other lovingly looks on.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison…”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“Jesus telling his disciples to be “in the world but not of it.” If you Google that phrase, you’ll find a wealth of confusion about what it actually means, but the kernel of the teaching is that there is a difference between buying into worldly life and not buying into it. When you don’t buy into it, Jesus teaches, you are somehow with God.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“At present the dominant story, collectively speaking, is scientific, and one aspect of the mind is given credit for advancing human evolution: rational thought. If we pity our forebears for their difficulty in getting past superstition and myth, the future may pity us for glorifying the rational mind and neglecting the whole mind.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: The inspiring book to help you unleash your full potential from the Sunday Times bestselling author

“You travel in a vaguely shaped aura of moisture and exhaled air, trailing behind you a constant stream of microbes and old skin cells that are being shed (by one estimate, the dust bunnies that accumulate in a house are 50 percent dead skin cells).”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“On the direct path you constantly reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at bay.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“are constantly taking transient experiences, cramming them into prearranged slots, turning discontinuity into continuity, and making solid what is actually fluid. The technical term for what’s happening is reification—giving immaterial experiences “thingness.” So convincing is this transformation that rocks seem solid and heavy when, in fact, your mind reified them—you have created solidity and heaviness in your own awareness. This constitutes another outrageous conclusion to anyone who is out to reinforce and reaffirm the spell/dream/illusion. But you cannot thaw out the “thingness” of the physical world unless you break down the process that created it. I’m hesitant to use any kind of jargon, but we need to delve into how reification works. The dictionary definition of reify is “to make something more concrete or real.” The mental image of money gets reified into a dollar bill, which you can fold up and stick in your wallet. “Parenting” gets reified when you decide to have a baby you can hold in your arms. What’s earthshaking is that virtual reality owes its existence entirely to reification. The web of connections that entangles everything in the spell/dream/ illusion with everything else comes down to the mind, because connections are mind-made. No object is actually a physical thing, pure and simple. “Object” and “thing” and “physical” are strands of a mental web. People find it relatively easy to accept that a piece of paper currency is the reified form of a concept (money), but they balk when they are told that the same is true of body, brain, and universe. The key is to”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: The inspiring book to help you unleash your full potential from the Sunday Times bestselling author

“If the elementary building blocks of matter and energy are conceptual, then the universe itself is bubbling up from a set of ideas or forms, too.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“You cannot be human without the ability to make symbols and recognize what they mean. A red stop sign is a symbol that tells cars to halt at an intersection. Red has zero connection to stop until human beings assign it that meaning.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“During sexual activity, oxytocin rises in women, making them bond with their sexual partners emotionally, but the effect doesn’t seem to happen in men. Something strange”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

“To discover who you really are, you must go beyond who you think you are. To find peace, you must go beyond fear. To experience unconditional love, you must go beyond conditional love, the kind that comes and goes.”
― Deepak Chopra, Metahuman: The inspiring book to help you unleash your full potential from the Sunday Times bestselling author