we are all in the search for true
happiness but in reality our search
should be for our life purpose and
finding our unique talent to serve
others because with that comes true
happiness my guests on today's show is
Dr. Deepak Chopra the renowned author
and speaker he will be with us talking
about finding your purpose serving
others and happiness and we'll return
with him in just a moment
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and we're back with my guest for today's
show Dr. Deepak Chopra dr. Chopra is
author of 25 books his latest book how
to know God is out now he is also the
author of over a hundred audio and video
programs including five that are
critically acclaimed in public
television he has also got these books
translated into over 32 different
languages and he was awarded 1999 by
time magazine the award for the icon and
hero of the year for the actually hero
the century and they actually called him
the poet philosopher of alternative
medicine now he is the CEO and founder
of the Chopra Center well being here in
La Jolla were actually filming welcome
to the show Dr. Chopra thanks for having
me thank you a one thing on a personal
note I wanted to let you know is I've
been a fan of yours for a very long time
and you've helped change my life in many
ways and you've kind of jumped started
my spirit I wanted to thank you for this
fella thank you thanks one of the things
that you talk about a lot is human
potential and I think for a lot of
people with from many different walks of
life or have a very difficult time
really realizing the unlimited
possibilities of human potential would
you be able to explain why you believe
that that exists for all of us well the
potential exists in your soul in your
spirit not in your mind not in your
physical domain but in a domain of
awareness that is infinite and unbounded
and it's your own spirit it's the place
where you have inspiration and insight
and intention and imagination and
mission and decision making and free
will and creativity and understanding
and meaning and purpose so beyond the
corridors of mind there is this field of
pure potentiality and it's your own soul
is your own spirit from here you can
create anything that you want anything
that the human mind can imagine is
possible and even beyond that more as
possible and this is part of the wisdom
tradition of every culture it's there in
the Bible when Jesus Christ says the
kingdom of heaven is inside your same
thing or ask and you shall receive
that's the intuitive response that
allows us to access this field of
creativity do you think that a lot of
people have a hard time grasping
unlimited potential in themselves
because they don't actually know
themselves they haven't gotten to know
who their spiritual self is yeah that
they haven't spent any time with
themselves and also i think we are
programmed in this society anyway people
are programmed by the culture and by
their parents to believe that they have
limited potential all the msgs be here
in our childhood play like muffled tape
loops in our mind all the time right and
the Western world you mentioned do you
think it is harder in the Western world
for us to to do that because of the way
we've been raised in a way society talks
to us like that it's true everywhere to
any similar at all songs I mean
a few luminaries in every culture who
have said from time to time that the
field of human potential is infinite but
the vast majority of people are indeed
programmed to believe that they only
have limited potential so when we do
find out who we are as our spiritual
self we do start to be it be able to
believe that that vastness is out there
and we're part of it yeah that last
nurse as I said as part of the spiritual
domain and that level of awareness has
three components first there's your soul
then there's the collective unconscious
which Carl Jung spoke but which is our
spiritual inheritance where we have
access to all the great masters of
history and then there's a universal
domain which is the immeasurable
potential of everything well that was
all that is and all that will ever be
and they all operate in the same time to
actually time doesn't exist and doesn't
exist it that the main time exists only
in the mind do you believe that when we
know who we really are our purpose comes
to be very aware it comes to know be
known to us yeah you would say that if
you sit down close your eyes and quiet
me a mind and ask yourself Who am I what
do I want what's my purpose if you just
ask those three questions the answers
will spontaneously emerge if you do
spend time though in quietness then that
happens now that's something we don't
get a lot of time to do we don't make a
lot yeah yeah meditation has been part
of the teaching of every wisdom
tradition though in the world and you
know again in judeo-christian tradition
be still and know that I am God so
so if you are able to sit quietly close
your eyes watch your breath or repeat a
phrase like the Lord is my shepherd or
there will be done and by and by your
mind gets quiet and then it becomes
completely still in that stillness you
can eavesdrop on the mind of the cosmos
if you were the mind of the universe
here the Chopra Center we teach
something called primordial sound
meditation which is a very specific way
of quieting the mind using ancient
sounds called mantras that are based on
the date of your birth in the place of
it worth so everybody has a different
style well there are different sounds
for most people there over a hundred and
eight different sounds that are specific
to the latitude the longitude and the
time the space-time event that's your
birth here and this is this is a method
that really works for the general public
yeah there's lots of people come here to
the center and we offer courses in this
every
