Deepak Chopra’s

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The Law of Intention and Desire

There’s a secret in the Vedic wisdom tradition that may be the most valuable of all; inherent in every desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. Pure consciousness is silent and still until it’s sparked into action by our desires. When you introduce any intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, you put this infinite organizing power to work for you. When you focus thought, you have the power to transform.

With the power inherent in your consciousness you can change the energy and information of your world, and cause things to manifest in the most efficient way possible. This infinite organizing power is found in a snowflake, a flower, or a cell. This isn’t a mystical notion, because every time you want run or lift your arms, your intention incites millions of chemical reactions and electrical impulses that obey fixed laws of nature.

The fifth law applies the same mechanics to desires reaching far beyond the physical body. When you have an intention from the level of your soul or your spirit, then that intention has all the power of the universe. What blocks the universe from assisting us to get what we want? The ancient Indian seers answered this mystery through the sixth spiritual law of success, the law of detachment.

The Law of Detachment

The universe responds best when you are detached from your desire. That is, you are not desperate or obsessed. When you think “I must have this” or “if I don’t get this I will be a failure,” you are locking your awareness into a fixed, rigid mode. When you master the sixth law, you are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. Detachment is a quality of attention. Your intention is for the future, but your attention is in the present. As long as your attention is focused in the present, then your intent for the future will manifest; our intentions create reflections in the outside world.

Whenever things don’t seem to go our way, there is a negative reflection and you can see this directly. When the sixth law is fully mastered, individual attention expands its field to take in cosmic attention. You see the physical world through the eyes of the soul. The wisdom of uncertainty means that you don’t seek fixed moments when everything is going to work out perfectly. Instead, every moment in life is allowed to be filled with excitement, adventure, mystery. Allow yourself to embrace this moment and if you do that there’ll suddenly be an insight. It’s a quantum leap. In detachment from the outcome lies the wisdom of uncertainty. There are opportunities when grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty. Every situation you have in life is the seed of an opportunity. 

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