A Book That Peers into Eternity

INTENT BLOGArticle by Dr. Deepak Chopra There’s a single book that I reread every year: “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981). The title is a quotation. In India the goal of enlightenment is to see reality as a whole. When all illusion has fallen away, one looks around and can say, with complete confidence, [...]

A New World or No World? (Part 2)

A New World or No World? (Part 2) Deepak Chopra – June 20, 2008IntentBlog.com Eighty years after the great economist John Maynard Keynes observed that the market is psychological and goes up and down primarily because of how investors feel, few people grasp how profound he was. We still rely on objective standards that are [...]

No Surrender vs. Lapel Pins

“No Surrender” vs. Lapel Pins Deepak Chopra – June 07, 2008 One aspect of modern politics has been to elevate the trivial to unheard of heights. By any serious measure Barack Obama holds an enormous advantage over John McCain. His poise, intelligence, and charisma are undeniable, as is the utter ruin of the right-wing agenda [...]

Evil and Addiction to Pain (Part 2)

www.intentblog.comwww.deepakchopra.com Evil and the Addiction to Pain (Part 2) Deepak Chopra – May 05, 2008 In the generation before Shakespeare, the French essayist Montaigne remarked that cruelty and vengeance are so inherent in human nature that we wouldn’t be ourselves without them. In so many words, Shakespeare said the same thing in his tragedies and [...]