The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life by Baptist de Pape Read Free Book Online

negative place, it becomes a friendly universe. Einstein said that the most important question a person can askhimself is “Is this a friendly universe?” and the people who are happiest answer, “Yes, this is a friendly universe.” That doesn’t mean that everything is always going your way. What it means is you believe that this is a universe that is on your side.
    There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
    —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET
    Keeping your heart open keeps you connected to your essence. Your true self is effectively a universal self, your true identity, part of something much bigger that we might call the “soul of the world.” You are your soul first and your body second. Your body is merely an envelope that enables you to function in the physical world, whereas your soul transcends all the sensory perceptions, dimensions, and other elements of that physical world.
    Just by being ourselves, we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. The Being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.
    —DEEPAK CHOPRA, UNCONDITIONAL LIFE
    Staying aligned with your heart and soul connects you to the universe.
    Human beings are made of body, mind, and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of Consciousness.
    —DEEPAK CHOPRA, THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS FOR PARENTS
     ECKHART TOLLE
    You reach God not by reaching out, which for thousands of years most humans have done when they talked about God. Their eyes would go upward and you would look for God up there somewhere, but nobody ever found God up there. There was even a Russian astronaut who came back from space and said, “I didn’t see any God up there.” And of course he didn’t, because God is the divine dimension that is the essence of who you are, and that is heart. The heart of the universe, the heart of who you are.
    There is no difference between your true self and somebody else’s. We are all connected. As Tolle writes in The Power of Now , “You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.”
     NEALE DONALD WALSCH
    In my awareness, in my deep understanding, all of us are manifestations of the divine. That is, each of us is a singularization of God itself. And I think the experience of that occurs when our hearts crack wide open. And we see our true identity, we see to the deepest part of who we are.
    From the moment you come into being, you are your soul. Your soul gets all the vital functions going. And because your soul is immaterial, it cannot die. Your personality will die, but your soul will live on.
    Dr. Kathy Magliato, a cardiothoracic surgeon who writes about the heart’s many meanings, frequently witnesses patients’ final heartbeats as they move between life and death. “Something very definite, very distinct leaves their body when their heart stops,” she says, and she believes this is their soul. She also believes “that the soul resides in the heart,” because once the heart stops, the soul departs.
    It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
    —ALBERT EINSTEIN, “SCIENCE AND RELIGION”
    Your soul, your universal self, adopts an earthly personality. Your personality tends to emphasize the differences between you and others, but when you recognize that you are a spiritual being having a human experience, that we are all spiritual beings, you see the connectedness and realize that you are first and foremost a soul.
     GARY ZUKAV
    Instead of being insignificant and powerless, you begin to glimpse something, something that can be terrifying at first—that you are a compassionate, loving, powerful, and creative spirit.
    You are here to live from the heart.

CONTEMPLATION
    A Sense of Soul on Earth
    With an open heart, you see the world in beautiful detail—friendly, spacious, alive. Every detail has its own place and meaning, writes physicist and mindfulness teacher