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?

Dharma

I have been listening to your audio book “Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” for over four years almost every day of my life. I would first like to thank you, as it helped me a lot during tough times. When I was in University (three years ago) I wanted to work in a big corporate firm. I kept getting rejection letters from almost all the corporate giants until I followed the steps outlined in your book and I miraculously got an offer from the biggest international accounting firm. However, after some time I realized that it did not make me happy and I decided to resign two months ago, after two years of internship. I do not regret my decision as I am very happy not to be in that particular work environment but I am very confused as I cannot decide what is it that I want in life. I cannot find my purpose/dharma in life. I tried to meditate but I fail consistently. I need to start work but I feel very scared to go back to another accounting firm as I know this is not right for me.
However, that is all I know and I have limited choice. I always wanted to meet you and ask for your guidance. Please help!

Daily Inspiration

Three things are absolute and can not be destroyed: awareness, Being, and love. -Deepak Chopra