Review: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams by Deepak Chopra
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book was so idealistic with no facts behind it. Often disagreeing with what was being said in the book, it showed me that the author really likes to hear himself speak. Or read his own words.
I still found some inspiring quotes but I'm taking them with a grain of salt because I truly disliked this book.
It's worrisome that people who are looking for guidance will try to seek it in this book. There's no evidence, no rebuttals, no data to back anything Chopra writes up.
When a self-help author writes how someone can change their life according to their "laws", there should be reasons as to WHY the readers would be compelled to follow his ways. Yet throughout the book, it was non-stop overuse of the same words, same phrases, with different objectives for each fitting chapter. I couldn't help but physically shake my head at some of the things I was reading as it frankly helps no one and sounds like a one-man show no one's coming to. I highly doubt I'll read another book by him.

Quotes:
Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing from the activity of speech. It also means periodically withdrawing from such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a book.

What happens when you go into this experience of silence? Initially your internal dialogue becomes even more turbulent. You feel an intense need to say things.

internal dialogue begins to quieten. And soon the silence becomes profound.

“Today I shall judge nothing that occurs.” Non-judgment creates silence in your mind.

This coexistence of opposites — stillness and dynamism at the same time — makes you independent of situations, circumstances, people, and things.

silent, unbounded, infinite and dynamic, bounded, individual mind = perfect combo of stillness and movement

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow

What goes up must come down; what goes out must come back. In reality, receiving is the same thing as giving, because giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe.

If, through the act of giving, you feel you have lost something, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase. If you give grudgingly, there is no energy karma implies the action of conscious choice-making.

Grass doesn’t try to grow, it just grows. Fish don’t try to swim, they just swim. Flowers don’t try to bloom, they bloom. Birds don’t try to fly, they fly. This is their intrinsic nature.-disagree

What is commonly called a “miracle” is actually an expression of the Law of Least Effort.
seek approval from others, you spend energy in a wasteful way. When that energy is freed up, it can be rechanneled and used to create anything that you want.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation.

Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase.

You do not need to justify; simply declare your intent to yourself, and you will experience fulfillment, delight, joy, freedom, and autonomy in every moment of your life.

You are like a wiggle, a wave, a fluctuation, a convolution, a whirlpool, a localized disturbance in the larger quantum field. The larger quantum field — the universe — is your extended body.
attention and intention. Attention energizes, and intention transforms.

Birds begin to migrate in a certain direction at a certain time of the year. Nature is a symphony.
Both past and future are born in the imagination; only the present, which is awareness, is real and eternal.

You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. This is the power of detached awareness and one-pointed, focused intention simultaneously.

go into the silence

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

While meditation is the most useful way of entering the domain of spirit, simply shifting your internal dialogue to “How can I help?” will also access the spirit

integrity and the integrity of the whole body. The internal dialogue of every cell in the human body is, “How can I help?”

The heart cells want to help the immune cells, the immune cells want to help the stomach and lung cells, and the brain cells are listening to and helping every other cell. Every cell in the human body has only one function: to help every other cell.

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