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'… we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities
and infinite creativity … Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy.
Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect
balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature.'
'The experience of the Self, or ‘self-referral’, means
that our internal reference point is our own spirit, and not the objects of our
experience. The opposite of self-referral is object-referral. In
object-referral we are always influenced by objects outside the Self, which
include situations, circumstances, people, and things. In object-referral we are
constantly seeking the approval of others. Our thinking and our behaviour are
always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear based.
In object-referral we also feel an intense need to
control things. We feel an intense need for external power. The need for
approval, the need to control things, and the need for external power are needs
that are based on fear … When we experience the power of the Self, there is an
absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval
or external power.'
Deepak Chopra, 1996, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Bantam Press
