I love your books and I feel like I know you. Deepak, can meditation help me with my irrational fears? I feel that I’m not good enough for it to work for me. I know that is irrational, but is there a correct way or is it different for everyone? I’d like to get to know me, but it seems that my brain is resisting. Any advice is appreciated! Thank you my friend.
Daily Inspiration
God’s reality doesn’t stand apart from our perceptions but is woven into them. -Deepak Chopra
Chapman – Happenings – The Great Debate
CNNI
Deepak says rationality must overcome emotions over the Quran controversy on the 9/11 anniversary. View the video: CNNI
Muhammad and the Litmus Test
Does the truth need to pass a litmus test? When you tell the truth about anyone’s religion, the answer isn’t so clear. Before I engaged in writing a novel on the life of Muhammad, the risks were only too apparent. Islam was a hot-button issue. Tempers were running high. Looming large were the fatwa and Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, and the worldwide uprising among Muslims over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper that was thought to blaspheme against the Prophet. Therefore, simply to set down the events of Muhammad’s life — events that are by turns gripping, exciting, disturbing, and inspiring — leads directly into an inflamed debate. (more…)