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• May 03 2012

  A Personal Note

  Category:  Relationships , Spirituality

  Excerpted from my book Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life’s Greatest Challenges 
  
  Ever since my first days as a doctor, forty years ago, people have asked for answers. A medical treatment was what they wanted, but the reassurance and comfort that human contact could bring was just as valuable, perhaps even more so. Unless he’s completely burned out, a physician sees himself as a rough- and- ready savior, yanking victims out of danger into a state of safety and well- being.
  
  I’m grateful for my years seeing patients, because I learned the difference between advice and solutions. People who are in trouble are rarely helped by advice. Crises don’t wait; something very bad will happen if the right solution isn’t found.
  
  I kept the same standard in mind when writing this book. It began with people writing me with troubles on their minds. Their letters were sent from around the world— at one point I was answering questions daily or weekly from India, the United States, and many other locales, mostly through the Internet. Yet in a sense everyone was writing from the same place inside, where confusion and darkness had overwhelmed them. These people were hurt, betrayed, abused, misunderstood, ill, worried, anxious, and at times desperate. Sadly, that is the human condition, almost permanently for some people, but these feelings are always possible for people who are happy and contented— for the moment.
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  • I had a doctor in the past who was able to ask me the right questions at the right moment and so let me come up with my own answers and a solution to the existential problem I had at that time. If a doctor, a shrink or a personal coach is able to do that, without immediately writing out a recipe, then he knows what it is to be the observer and let a person be able to take his/her own personal responsibility. Am grateful for that and have been able to figure everything in life out by myself since then. But the sad truth in our society is that when doctors will do that, they make themselves redundant including the pharmaceutical industry. It would reduce the costs of health care enormously but also increase unemployment in this sector in a large way. And this is also the eternal dilemma of politics: to allow their citizens this liberal freedom or not. In my country the costs of healthcare are the largest debt burden because everyone has lost their own sense of responsibility for their own health...... And now they try to blame the seniors for living too long and scaring them that they will all get dementia and who is going to pay that.......

    heartphone // 2012-04-24 11:17:03 // 18 Like(s) // Like

  • I couldn`t agree more. The struggle is in our mind. Its our very own manifestation of that which isn`t.

    Swasti // 2012-04-24 02:59:20 // 9 Like(s) // Like

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• February 14 2012

  Deepak Chopra Brings The “Kama Sutra” To Digital Platforms For Valentine’s Day

  Category:  Relationships

  - Acclaimed Author’s E-Book & App Explores the Relationship Between Spirituality & Sexuality -
  
  NEW YORK, NY— February 14, 2012 – New York Times bestselling author, Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The Book of Secrets), publisher Liquid Comics and online site Intent.com, announced today the wide digital release of, “Deepak Chopra’s Kama Sutra and the Seven Spiritual Laws of Love,” a lavishly illustrated book now available across a number of digital E-Book & App platforms for Valentine’s Day. A preview of the entire first chapter of the book is available now for free exclusively on Intent.com.
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  • Thank You*

    deep // 2012-02-15 07:49:42 // 5 Like(s) // Like

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• January 22 2012

  Embracing India: An Interview with Oprah and Deepak

  Category:  Happiness , Relationships

  She burst into homes with her TV talk show, coaxing even the most reticent to open up. And OPRAH WINFREY has grown, inspiring millions to emulate her path of compassion and love. She talks to DEEPAK CHOPRA.
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  • to read all the above I would say: there is not so much difference in both your visions. So to me this means that equality and equanimity are more and more established in society of today. Hopefully this really is going to stay this way :)

    heartphone // 2012-01-22 17:50:38 // 11 Like(s) // Like

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• December 07 2011

  Love and Light

  Category:  Relationships , Spirituality

  Love and Light to my dear friend, Barbara Orbison.  Wishing you a speedy journey.
  
  
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• November 18 2011

  Letters from Vietnam: A Daughter's Search for Her Father

  Category:  Consciousness , Relationships , Blog Talk Radio

  Deepak hosts Jacqueline Lundquist, author of Letters from Vietnam: A Daughter's Search for Her Father.
  
  Jacqueline’s careful and loving collection of her father’s letters and then her own journey to Vietnam to see for herself where they were written is a wonderful tribute to a man she longed to know and came to know through his own words.” - President William Clinton
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