The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life (Chopra, Deepak) | 
| Author: Deepak Chopra
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1400098343
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9781400098347
ASIN: 1400098343
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
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Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most long to know remains lodged deep inside.
We all want to know how to find a soul mate, what career would be most fulfilling, how to live a life with meaning, and how to teach our children well. We are looking for a personal breakthrough, a turning point, a revelation that brings with it new meaning. The Book of Secrets--a crystalline distillation of insights and wisdom accumulated over the lifetime of one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time--provides an exquisite new tool for achieving just that.
Because answers to the questions at the center of life are counterintuitive, they are often hidden from view, sequestered from our everyday gaze. In his ongoing quest to elevate our experience, bestselling author Deepak Chopra has isolated fifteen secrets that drive the narrative of this inspiring book--and of our lives. From "The World Is in You" and "What You Seek, You Already Are" to "Evil Is Not Your Enemy" and "You Are Truly Free When You Are Not a Person," The Book of Secrets is rich with insights, a priceless treasure that can transport us beyond change to transformation, and from there to a sacred place where we can savor the nectar of enlightenment.
"The Book of Secrets is the finest and most profound of Deepak Chopra’s books to date. Want the answers to the secrets of life? Let me recommend that you start right here." -- Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Profound and Exciting September 30, 2004
George Brown (Santa Fe, NM USA)
122 out of 126 found this review helpful
I'm a long-time reader of Dr. Chopra's books, but this one is truly unique. It pulls no punches, telling the whole story of how he sees spirit and the path to enlightenment. In the past Dr. Chopra has used a lot of pop metaphors to get his message across and has been lumped with motivational writers like Wayne Dyer and Tony Robbins, but in The Book of Secrets he is all spiritual, and for me that is really exciting. If you want to learn about everything from good and evil to life after death and the five illusions that create unreality, this is the book for you.
A different way to look at death November 1, 2004
Just Larry
99 out of 99 found this review helpful
Chopra writing of death says to "imagine yourself into a new form with a new location in space and time."
Lewis in An Encounter with a Prophet instructs an adolescent to see his dead brother pursuing his favorite activity at a different location.
These authors do not see death as a end but as a continuation of the life here. Interesting concepts.
Deep Chopra November 2, 2006
R. Zdrojewski (Michigan, USA)
67 out of 68 found this review helpful
Part of me wants to dismiss Chopra as touchy-feely new-agey fluff, but I keep reading him because there are such profound resonant truths underneath everything he writes about. He goes a little off the uh, "deep," end now and again, but really, he does a fine job of relating ancient eastern principles in a very personal and understandable way. He's actually going over the same material with each new book, but to his credit, he finds so many different ways to relate it to the modern world, and to different mindsets -- each book is better than the last. I think of him as the Alan Watts of this era. There are a lot of "wow" moments in this one, and a very enjoyable journey. I've read through it several times already.
Mechanics of existential reality and its operating system October 10, 2004
MoonLitTree (Houston, TX, USA)
64 out of 93 found this review helpful
Thorough analysis and realistically positive exploration of various aspects of mysticism and how it relates to the mechanics of existential reality.
Dr. Chopra sails further and further deep into the age-old endeavor to discover infinity within confined boundaries with well-cited everyday scenarios that all can relate to. And he does that with careful open mind and clarity.
The ever-conflicting self-inflicting pain and pleasures to our minds are in one meaningful level is nothing but an ever-conflicting reality of perception which in many forms is always a relative matter. It is far easier to say than to experience and conquer on your own but the one ever ignoring fact is that first critical requirement to reach to that desired dimension where mind can experience the absolute bliss, untouchable by any self destructing bias is in its very core needs convincing of its own with a solidly grounded belief system built on mind's very own "operating system" without which all past knowledge, experiences, events and associations can take precedence in their own conflicting ways without allowing any control to the owner of the operating system itself.
This very idea of understanding mind's operating system may seem pure and simple but has been overlooked by many and really is the key essence of this new exploration.
Cited with numerous examples and analogies, author makes a clear case by defining each of these aspects of perceived reality in contrast with a level of pure potential where mind gets empowered with its ever flowing energy drawn from the universe and can truly convince itself that these dimensions are attainable with slight shift of paradigm in thought process and before you know it, your mind get enriched with pure potential in a flash like a quantum leap.
We don't need any concrete proof to realize that our perception of life and its events are completely relative matter. For instance, how often we come across people like these who strongly believe "The trouble with happiness is you don't have it, you remember it". .. It is your life it is you that is experiencing all the things in life. One can live it the way the external world is making one believe that one should or can feel the way one wants to feel by creating one's own moments exactly the way one wants to perceive it. It may sound trivially philosophical or poetic but that is where Dr. Chopra's genius mind comes in to play. In this book, he very craftily manages to convince reader that it is simply not a philosophical choice but a reality of various dimensions that we have been constantly fail to fathom.
A must read for anyone interested in living in every moments with "pure potential".
-The TreeClub Review Team.
 Secrets of the void October 21, 2004
John Zxerce (Colorado ^^^)
57 out of 87 found this review helpful
Chopra's book can be summed up in a few statements...."What you seek, you already are, and you seek what you already are for the world is in you for you are the world and the world is you. Accept this single secret of unified reality and you will succeed in extinguishing yourself." However, I found the book raising more questions than answering questions.
1. If I am the world and the world is me - then when I see pain, suffering and evil in the world, am I seeing myself?
2. If my goal is to realize that I am one with the universe then should I strive to reform culture and fight for justice - or should I accept things as they are?
3. If I am truly free when I am not a person then is suicide a valid option?
4. When someone offends me, should I seek to honestly communicate that to them, or should I recognize they are part of me and let it go?
5. If my ultimate goal is to extinguish myself, then should I work on subduing my desires, dreams, and passions - or should I pursue those things?
6. What is the ultimate purpose and meaning in life if all is one?
7. If evil is not my enemy then should I fight against it or should I embrace it?
8. If I am in communion with the whole of life - why do I experience disappointment?
9. Is change real or imagined?
10. Is there a difference between the renewed and the old - or are differences illusions?
In short, I found Chopra's book to be more ethereal, and the pratical aspects didn't seem to flow logically from the spiritual assertions. In the end I was left spinning in a fog nearing vertigo. Did I miss something?
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