Ask Deepak: How to Forgive Your Ex

Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra responds to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives.

Q: How can I be sure I have completely forgiven my former spouse for abuse, abandonment and alcoholism? Can this really be done properly without contact with him (via letter)? We were together for 20 years and have two grown daughters who do not have good relations with their dad either. I have not spoken to him since the messy divorce 15 years ago. He remarried right away. And how can I be sure I have completely forgiven myself for my part in it? Oprah.com

Ask Deepak: How to Heal Back Pain By

Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra responds to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives.

Q: Honestly, I can’t imagine a more blessed life. Everything I’ve ever dreamed of, I asked, and here it is. I know that pain of the soul can manifest through illness and injury. It’s been a very long journey. Looking back, I can see why it all happened, when it happened and how it happened. It was all important to get me to where I am today. Oprah.com

Ask Deepak: How to Find What Makes You Happy

Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra responds to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives.

Q: I’ve just reached 30 years of age, and I’ve started reading into spirituality. It’s beginning to make me address and analyze some important issues in my life. I’ve spent the best part of the last 20 years being plagued by anxiety, fear and phobias that have led me to just go along with things in life whether I enjoy them or not (e.g., work, relationships). As long as I wasn’t stepping out of my comfort zone and had financial security, then that was enough for me. Oprah.com

The Play of Creation

In your last post on your homepage where you write about your ideas on The Future of God, these two things are written:

“It would be very difficult to explain why the Universe would have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.”

“Evolution proceeds naturally once set in motion through gene variation and natural selection. The current state of this process is homo sapiens and an exquisite nervous system through which consciousness becomes conscious of itself through us.”

I understand the ideas as that God has created the universe because it wants to become aware of itself.
Why does this Consciousness/God need to become aware of itself, isn´t it already totally aware if it can create a Universe?
If it creates it for fun I can understand it, but can it possibly be more aware?
Or is it so that one part of God is aware and one is not, and that the aware part does the unaware part a favour by letting it explore and discover itself by creating a whole universe for it?
Or does Consciousness/God create Universes without being aware of what it´s doing?

As you might have noticed, I really don´t understand this, I find it very contradicting. Can you explain?