That's your take on it. I didn't copy and paste a thing during the exchange. I've been reading him since 1992. Here is what I've found. I went only thru 1/3 of your posts and this is what came up. I don't think that I have to go thru the other 2/3 after this:
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“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.”
- Deepak Chopra
"....reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.” " - Deepak Chopra
"The same faint song is heard in everything: 'Behold yourself'". - Deepak Chopra
"Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist. So they spread the rumor that you were born." Savitri was astonished at this line of reasoning." - Deepak Chopra
“If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.” -Deepak Chopra
"The man pulling radishes Pointed the way With a radish." - Kobayashi Issa
“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.” - Deepak Chopra
“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.” - Deepak Chopra
“No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.” Deepak Chopra
“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.” - Deepak Chopra
"Life is like that. If you are not fully present, you will look around and it will be gone. You will have missed the feel, the aroma, the delicacy and beauty of life.
It will seem to be speeding past you." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Well, now, hold on there...As everything is primordially pure and timelessly free pure awareness, no matter what the appearances may be, then, all words in the dictionary actually have the same ultimate meaning- wide-open primordially-pure and timelessly free pure awareness. That is the true nature of all phenomena, and therefore all words actually describe only that, no matter what their dictionary definitions might be. ;D
This almond fruit stollen (two dots above the o) coffee cake is absolutely delicious!! "A fundamental aspect of the Great Freedom teachings is that whatever appears within pure awareness is actually a form of pure awareness, and inseparable from that basic space. So, no matter what the point of view may be (even if it is an appearance of some horrific calamity), it is actually just a form of pure awareness, and has as its true nature the qualities of pure awareness: primordial purity, wide-open emptiness, timeless freedom. In other words, everything is primordially pure and timelessly free, no matter what the appearances may be. (She says that all words in the dictionary actually have the same ultimate meaning: ‘wide-open primordially-pure awareness’, for that is the true nature of all phenomena, and therefore all words actually describe only that, no matter what their dictionary definitions might be.)" - Jay Devison
