The Return of Merlin Quotes

“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

“I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“The world is more than the sum of its suffering. ”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?"

In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a friend who calls you plucked angels, and he claims you're a total waste of spirit. Do you ever think like that?"

Of course, in honest moments. But I can be just as honest and think that we aren't a spiritual waste but a spiritual potential waiting to grow.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Words are not brains, you know.”
― Deepak Chopra , The Return of Merlin

“(W)hy does it hurt to be loved?
When you do (know), you will be strong in truth, not in grief.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Society isn't prepared to imagine a soul wandering through time to heal its grief.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“It's up to you. What you will, will be.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Your pain is the key to your healing.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Despite habit and numbness, a person can find the beginning of the road, and if one has courage, the whole enormous load of fear -- the dead weight of the past -- can be shed.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Everyone creates the world they perceive, and we all perceive according to impressions fixed in the past.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won't be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“(P)eople live their whole lives shut in by walls. Reality stands before them, yet they do not see it, because what you call real is just the image of your expectations. Your project the same images everywhere you go. They blind you; they keep you chained to the past, but your greatest fear is that one day the mirror will show you reality.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Magic is attracted to good or bad and intensifies them. It fans the sparks that already lie in a man's character. The real power lies in the silence of your heart.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Let go, allow, and it will be yours.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“The illusion was created by (mortals), and now they believe in it too strongly. They use their power to create a drama of birth and death, joy and pain.... In truth, the darkness has no power other than what they give it.... (T)he secret of conquering evil (is) YOU ARE EVIL. When you can face that, all monsters dissolve into the mist.... All monsters live in a dark place where mortals stuff their fears and shame and guilt.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“(T)his world is pure illusion. It looks real but the first step of knowledge that the wizard must learn is not to trust his senses... The cycle of life and death continues forever, but only to the senses... (P)erhaps you were always alive, and birth was simply a moment of forgetting.... Light! It is all light.... The light is all, and in the light there is only one thing -- eternal life. It cannot be created or destroyed. The wizard is not afraid to walk in the darkness -- indeed he must -- because that is where illusion dies... (Wizards) dabble in eternity. The wizard looks around him and finds the eternal in all directions. His only choice is what to do with it.... It is also joy to pierce the illusion and find the wellspring of creative power.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“You have tried the power of the sword. Now try throwing it away... (rise) to a privileged place where everyday acts took on a mythical meaning.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“This is not the kind of knowledge you learn; it is the kind you become.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“Past, present and future are illusions, or to put it another way, to separate past, present, and future is an illusion.... The present is the opening in time...”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

“(E)very version of time is real, but none of them is complete.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin