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The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

Deepak Chopra

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

“A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.”

“The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.”

“We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.”

“In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.”

“If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.”

“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.”

“The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".”

“Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.”

“Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into a leaf, only to fall and change again into soil. The change of state crosses many boundaries. A sunbeam is invisible, whereas leaves and soil are visible.A leaf is alive and growing,whereas sunbeams aren't.the colors of light, leaf, and soil are different, and so on. But all these transformations exist as constructs of the mind.The actual energy present in the sunbeam experiences no change at all.”

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nature, suffering, god, death, love, silence, energy, life, psychology-spirituality, alchemy, spirituality

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