Awareness of Clutching (and the Programming)

Quotes from the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

"If we are unaware, we live in a completely deterministic Universe ... we are at the mercy of every passer-by on the street, every event, ready to react ... we call this freedom, but it is not. Spirituality is the progression from this unaware state in to the domains inside of us where there is more and more awareness. Ultimately we become aware of awareness itself." (Then it is a free-will universe ... sort of ;-) ... at that point, the Universal Spirit is in charge!)

"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. Our thoughts, words and deeds are threads of the net we throw around ourselves." - Swami Vivekananda as quoted by Deepak Chopra

"An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing." (Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease. Are the birds trying to fly? Is a fertilized ovum trying to become a human being? There can't be any question of effort. It is happening out there in a frictionless transfer of information and energy) - Lao Tzu as quoted by Deepak Chopra

"The known is the prison, the unknown is the field of opportunity." (For every known, there are a million unknowns. Focus on the unknowns, not the known)

"I can (gently) change the past (yes, even the past! but that is another story) and the future, but this moment ... the present ... I should accept. The whole Universe (which includes me) has conspired to co-create this moment. I need to surrender to the people, circumstances in the moment." (The birds and fertilized ovums do this, they don't struggle and hence they succeed ... effortlessly.)

"An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing."