Each week, Deepak responds to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives.
Q: Every day I wake up and promise myself that I’m going to live each day to the fullest and not let my emotions or fears hold me back. I’m going to do that thing that I’ve been putting off, talk about that issue that has been eating away at me, but after bathing and having my (more…)
I am right now attending a group discussion sessions in Toronto where we talk about Mind, Body and soul, reincarnation, mindfulness, being attentive etc., In my previous session, someone in the group talked about Soul’s ego. That person told me that our soul has an ego and that we carry it from one birth to the next. I would like to ask you that question – Does a soul have an ego?. To my knowledge, our soul carries only the experience from one incarnation to the next and the ego develops in the physical body and dies with it. Please answer my question, I would be very grateful.
Even in the midst of chaos, conflict, and confusion, I find a place of inner peace. -Deepak Chopra
I’m struggling with what karma is and what is not… I kissed another girl while I was in a relationship, for what I’m really sorry and I have many troubles to forgive myself what I did. I’m trying my best everyday to fix it. In my mind there is always a thought if the loved one will do the same to me. I read many books and articles, but karma is so complicated to understand. Maybe it’s a silly question, but please let me know what do you think, if I cheated it means that it will happen back to me? I can’t go back in time and fix it but I realized my mistake and don’t know how to deal with it. I have problems to forgive myself and I just hope everything will work out with my (ex)girlfriend and that one day we will be back together.
Recently I received a letter from a woman, happily married in her forties, who said that “things” have been happening to her all her life. What she meant by “things” is quite fascinating. She’d notice strange coincidences every day, such as having a word pop into her head and then the next minute hearing that very word being spoken on the radio. She also had funny sensations she couldn’t explain, such as a feeling of floating or a cold, prickling sensation, only to discover that someone close to her had gotten sick of died. (more…)
