Deepak Chopra
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My perception tells me you're a three-dimensional solid figure, but you're proportionately as void as intergalactic space. If I could see you through God's eyes, I'd see a huge emptiness with a few scattered dots and spots, maybe some pixels. But even those pixels and those random dots and spots are made of emptiness. So... Therefore, everything I perceive is a magical lie, is a total lie.
My perception tells me you're a three-dimensional solid figure, but you're proportionately as void as intergalactic space. If I could see you through God's eyes, I'd see a huge emptiness with a few scattered dots and spots, maybe some pixels. But even those pixels and those random dots and spots are made of emptiness. So... Therefore, everything I perceive is a magical lie, is a total lie.
My perception tells me you're a three-dimensional solid figure, but you're proportionately as void as intergalactic space. If I could see you through God's eyes, I'd see a huge emptiness with a few scattered dots and spots, maybe some pixels. But even those pixels and those random dots and spots are made of emptiness. So... Therefore, everything I perceive is a magical lie, is a total lie.
And then my conceptions are based on my perceptions, which are human perceptions. What does the world look like to a dragonfly with 30,000 eyes? which can see 360 degrees all the time? What does it look like to a chameleon whose eyeballs swivel on two different axes? To a snake that navigates infrared? To a butterfly that knows ultraviolet?
And then my conceptions are based on my perceptions, which are human perceptions. What does the world look like to a dragonfly with 30,000 eyes? which can see 360 degrees all the time? What does it look like to a chameleon whose eyeballs swivel on two different axes? To a snake that navigates infrared? To a butterfly that knows ultraviolet?
And then my conceptions are based on my perceptions, which are human perceptions. What does the world look like to a dragonfly with 30,000 eyes? which can see 360 degrees all the time? What does it look like to a chameleon whose eyeballs swivel on two different axes? To a snake that navigates infrared? To a butterfly that knows ultraviolet?
Through a bird that navigates through electromagnetic radiation? So what's the real world look like? It's a silly question. There's no such thing. There's no real world and there's no real look. It depends on who's looking and what they're using to do the looking, which means the brain, the conditioned mind and the eyes. So, you know, seeing is not happening in the eyes.
Through a bird that navigates through electromagnetic radiation? So what's the real world look like? It's a silly question. There's no such thing. There's no real world and there's no real look. It depends on who's looking and what they're using to do the looking, which means the brain, the conditioned mind and the eyes. So, you know, seeing is not happening in the eyes.
Through a bird that navigates through electromagnetic radiation? So what's the real world look like? It's a silly question. There's no such thing. There's no real world and there's no real look. It depends on who's looking and what they're using to do the looking, which means the brain, the conditioned mind and the eyes. So, you know, seeing is not happening in the eyes.
There's no picture of me in the eyes. It's not happening in the brain. It's happening in something that is beyond our comprehension, that is non-conceptual, non-perceivable. Ultimately, you surrender to it. Ishwar Pranidhana, the fifth one. Surrender to the divine mystery. And, you know, Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of all time, lived at Princeton just past a few years ago.
There's no picture of me in the eyes. It's not happening in the brain. It's happening in something that is beyond our comprehension, that is non-conceptual, non-perceivable. Ultimately, you surrender to it. Ishwar Pranidhana, the fifth one. Surrender to the divine mystery. And, you know, Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of all time, lived at Princeton just past a few years ago.
There's no picture of me in the eyes. It's not happening in the brain. It's happening in something that is beyond our comprehension, that is non-conceptual, non-perceivable. Ultimately, you surrender to it. Ishwar Pranidhana, the fifth one. Surrender to the divine mystery. And, you know, Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of all time, lived at Princeton just past a few years ago.
He said, God is what mind becomes when it goes beyond the threshold of our comprehension. If you can comprehend it, it's not God. Because as soon as you comprehend it, you limit it. As soon as you define it, you limit it. And by definition, it's the infinite ungraspable that makes things graspable. And what it makes things graspable are all magical lies. And, you know, they call it Maya.
He said, God is what mind becomes when it goes beyond the threshold of our comprehension. If you can comprehend it, it's not God. Because as soon as you comprehend it, you limit it. As soon as you define it, you limit it. And by definition, it's the infinite ungraspable that makes things graspable. And what it makes things graspable are all magical lies. And, you know, they call it Maya.
He said, God is what mind becomes when it goes beyond the threshold of our comprehension. If you can comprehend it, it's not God. Because as soon as you comprehend it, you limit it. As soon as you define it, you limit it. And by definition, it's the infinite ungraspable that makes things graspable. And what it makes things graspable are all magical lies. And, you know, they call it Maya.
In innumerable ways, through innumerable sentient beings, not just humans. Every sentient being is differentiated from the one consciousness. Just like your nose and your eyes and your teeth and your fingernails and your genitalia differentiated from one cell. Same thing.
In innumerable ways, through innumerable sentient beings, not just humans. Every sentient being is differentiated from the one consciousness. Just like your nose and your eyes and your teeth and your fingernails and your genitalia differentiated from one cell. Same thing.
In innumerable ways, through innumerable sentient beings, not just humans. Every sentient being is differentiated from the one consciousness. Just like your nose and your eyes and your teeth and your fingernails and your genitalia differentiated from one cell. Same thing.
Let go of every concept and every perception as a window to reality. Every concept, every perception, let go of that idea that you'll ever be able to know reality intellectually or through any methodology or through any religion or through any map. Let go of that idea, number one. Number two, Embrace presence. See, when you embrace presence, I'm not talking about the present moment.
Let go of every concept and every perception as a window to reality. Every concept, every perception, let go of that idea that you'll ever be able to know reality intellectually or through any methodology or through any religion or through any map. Let go of that idea, number one. Number two, Embrace presence. See, when you embrace presence, I'm not talking about the present moment.