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Summary: an accidental gem
Review: It was by pure accident that I bought this book. Some friends and I had traveled to another city to celebrate another friend's birthday and ended up staying overnight at her house. Well, as I was up earlier than the others because we'd stayed up late visiting, I decided to go for a little walk so I wouldn't disturb them and what did I find but a neighbor having a rummage sale. I am a sucker for books and couldn't help but pick up some and this was one of them. Everyone wants to be successful, right? There are seven laws: Pure Potentiality, Giving, Karma or Cause and Effect, Least Effort, Intention and Desire, Detachment, Dharma or Purpose in Life. Much of the advice that he gives coincides with the bible. Like not judging, giving, wishing everyone well, etc. I tried a little of it and felt good and I really think that if you apply his instructions in life, it will make a big difference. It isn't always as easy to do as he says because we have a lifetime of living a different lifestyle, but I feel if I am persistent, it will make all the difference. I am just going to have to work out the stress and worry I feel about the direction our country is heading, figure out how to use his laws constructively to help solve the problems. I believe it will be possible. Anyway, for what it is worth I believe if you follow his instructions that you will succeed. Very interesting book!
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Summary: Authentic living
Review: This is a book about authentic living by an authentic hu-man being. The book can only be challenged by an out of tune, unauthentic intellect that does not recognize its own identity. in Love & Joy.
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Summary: Life changing...
Review: This book is exactly as this review is titled. Thanks Deepak!
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Summary: A practical spiritual guide.
Review: This factual book quickly cuts to the core of the topic of spirituality. The spiritual laws are appropriate for an age where individuals struggle to search for deeper meaning while being confronted by scarcity of time. As an introductory course, the author packaged the basic principles of spirituality in a short set of essays. Each principle is clearly described in terms of how it operates and its significance to living successfully. The teaching is void of spiritual and philosophical dogma and more centred on practical spirituality. Each chapter ends with advice on how to integrate the spiritual laws into our daily lives. Although it is quick to read the book, the book demands from the reader to be read more than once. Each essay needs to be pondered and practised to get real value from the book. For the curious, the book has enough to trigger some new spiritual insights. The serious spiritual seeker will find the spiritual laws as a life style and the book a life companion.
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Summary: Food for thought.
Review: An interesting little book I think most readers will get something out of. It is short, and easy to read. At worst, it's entertaining. I have always liked how Deepak blends science with religion. Also recommend "The Multifidus Back Pain Solution" if you still have back pain.
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Summary: Mental and emotional junk food
Review: The book is a smallish hardcover book with a little over 100 pages, all set in large type and generous spacing on smallish pages. In these pages, Deepak Chopra goes through seven "laws" of behavior and thinking that he promises, among other things, will "make your dreams come true" and bring you "unlimited wealth". In reality, the "laws" are quite arbitrary and simplistic, such as being aware of what you're doing or giving to people. The text is mostly feelgood rubbish peppered with some psychological discoveries (to lend it some credibility no doubt) and quotes taken from various places that seem to support his notions, mostly from similar new age works such as A Course in Miracles, and some I think are taken out of context or made to look like they agree. He talks about "quantum fields", "field of pure potential", "tapping into the cosmic computer", and says things like "In the ecstacy of my own silence, and by communing with nature, I will enjoy the life throb of ages, the field of pure potentiality and unbounded creativity." Unsurprisingly, he has no evidence to support his claims, and the book is written with the confidence that it must be true merely because he says it is. While some of the (albeit little) psychological advice is useful, some advice I find unreasonable or potentially harmful. For example, he says that you should _always_ bring a gift when you visit someone. Another example is that the method of decision making he promotes is thinking of the choices and their consequences (this part is obvious), but then taking the one that makes you feel best and "plunge ahead with abandon". Not exactly good decision making. All in all, this book is a lot of fluff with little substance, hence the title of my review. It might appeal to people whose emotional needs these sorts of promises and concepts cater to, but for lasting and substantial change without the self-delusion, look towards books based on real psychology, which do away with the hokum but instead include reasoning and research.
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Summary: Rereading year after year
Review: I bought this book a while ago and it really changed how I looked at success in my life. I then bought the audio version to put in my car and within a month or two I met my future husband! Deepak Chopra is one of a kind and this book is something I give to others as gifts!
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Summary: He can't speak English.
Review: The book may be good, but the audio CD is .... not good. He can't speak English.
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Summary: Long-lasting
Review: I was recommended by someone to get this book when at that time i was having extreme diffulties coping, & didn't know my way on this earth ground. I was probably falling on gravel stones, & immovable, & yet comfortable, & ironically didn't want to be all of these, neither. This book is beautifully written, & speaks of universal law that some of us, humans, forgotten, & dispell (presumable due to our discomfort with ourself, & control factor--in such, that as we get older, we become more anxious, more angry, & intolarate). Now i read some of the reviews of this book, & hear the critism made about Chopra, that he probably dosen't act the way he preaches, and that he does other events with famous celebriies, but how are we to place judgement on his inner joy. What essentially this book does is shifts, if practice, & disciplined, ones' perceptions about people & issues around us, & knowing oneself. It is fundumentally understanding & hearing one's intent, as INTENTION PRELUDES WHAT OUR EFFECT WILL BE. If Chopra makes alot of money, good for him, as i think everyone in life should have the full richness of what they want, but i doubt he aim for this goal (as i'm sure it wouldn't have happened). Another universal angle to read is Buddha, & the Course of Miracles. We, humans (ALL OF US) are not God, including Chopra. If he thinks he is, then so be it (sarcasm--ha, ha, ha). Regardless, this book is a great book that gives exercises, & examples & need i say, concise. This book keeps things in focus, & centered. One final thought, to have a central ego as believing everyone's values & goals is the same as yours is totally diminshing this book's central aim, which is one's personal happiness.
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Summary: a nice introduction
Review: For the last two decades, I read a lot of books, and met a lot of spiritual teachers. In fact I have "unlearned" a number of things by meeting them. Step by step I lost of a number of beliefs till I noticed that there is nothing left, including the seeker who hoped to become enlightened some day. Finally I saw that the clear presence that we are has never been away.
Tony Parsons was my final teacher - if I can use such a description. But before I was ready to read Tony's books, I was "prepared" by other authors who write about this subject in a more popular way. Deepak Chopra is one of them, and I must say that his "7 laws" were one of my favourite presents to friends for a long time. Highly recommended.
Jan Kersschot, author of the book "Nobody Home"
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