The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that concepts like beauty, truth, and love are interconnected and challenges the notion of God as an illusion.
Deepak Chopra highlights the long-standing human fascination with fundamental concepts such as beauty, truth, honor, and love. He argues against the reductive view that God is merely a delusion by asserting that if God is a delusion, then so too are other essential experiences like truth and beauty. This statement emphasizes the subjective nature of these concepts and their intertwined existence in human experience.
Themes
BeautyTruthLoveHonorCourageSubjective Experience
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion on the nature of existence, you could reference this quote to illustrate the connection between subjective experiences.
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