HUMAN BEINGS BY CHOPRA

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The possibility that each person is an infinite being is becoming
more real now. Gifted with total flexibility in our nervous systems, we
all have the choice to build boundaries or tear them down. Every person
is continually manufacturing an infinite array of thoughts, memories,
desire, objects, and so on.

These impulses, rippling through the ocean of consciousness, become your
reality. If you knew how to control the creation of impulses of
intelligence, you would be able not only to grow new dendrites but
anything else. Just the slightest opening of awareness causes a reality
shift. Meditation, because it opens more channels of awareness and opens
them to a deeper level, causes a bigger shift. The change does not
depart far from the normal way we use our awareness. Building boundaries
will still be a fact of life.

The twist the rishis gave was to infuse this activity with freedom,
raising it to a level that transcends the petty thoughts and desires of
the isolated ego. Ordinarily, the ego has no choice but to spend life
desperately erecting one boundary after another. It does this for
protection.

The ego finds the world a dangerous, hostile place, because everything
that exists is separate from “I.” This is the condition known as
duality, and it is a great source of fear. As we look “out there,” we
see every kind of potential threat, all the trauma and pain that life
can inflict. The ego’s logical defense is to wall itself in with the
friendlier things – family, pleasures, happy memories, familiar places
and activities.

If duality is an illusion, then unity will not be established. Both have
their values, and without duality, unity has no substance. Both are
natural, both are true. That is the nature of the world. Like light and
darkness, the contradictions exist, they are there.

Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body
Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).