—Who am I? is the only question worth asking, and the only one that goes forever unanswered.—

Mr and Mrs Bennet are not wizards, but there’s something about Deepak (Big DC, lol), talking about the unnameable nature of the self, beyond names and roles, that reminds me of a phrase from “Pride and Prejudice” scholarship. One of those guys, I think it was Tony T, who said that Mr Bennet displays “role distance” in being reluctant, resistant, in his role of father who helps his daughters secure a marriage partner (an income!).

He’s superficially clever, but Mr Bennet is not a wizard, just a mortal who wants a better role for himself. Most people have a role they don’t like, they try to get a better role for themselves, but all roles are limitations, and limitations that have to be allowed and/or let go of, not resisted or foot-dragged…. (Incidentally it’s clever, if easy to green-eye him, that his example of a person with a role is a lawyer with a family, not a single unemployed person or even a lawyer without a family. The latter would probably think that they need a bigger better role, which they don’t, in a way, although it would seem like a put-down to tell them so, while some fat lawyer might almost take it, at least if s/he is the type to read books that aren’t reference works and technical manuals.) Mr Bennet doesn’t want to be a father; he wants to be a critic, you know.

And personally I love being a critic, although of course no one else finds me to be one, you know. But we all have workaday crap, and role avoidance isn’t the same as role freedom anymore than 50s-style mothering is.

I don’t know, of course (though I do know).

But you’ve got to just let go of those roles, if you want to be free: not always the same thing as revising duties lists, but you have to become free of the role whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant; not liking or disliking the unpleasant.

It takes ten or twenty minutes to write, a lifetime to live—or a moment.

…. Good things can happen, but we don’t trust, we’re confused about what we want, and we work to Prevent our dreams from coming true, so good things can’t happen ~to us~ when we’re like that.

…. I didn’t write about each lesson, but even if you just understood the little sayings in the beginning of the lessons, that would be great, although it takes the whole book which, short as it is, takes awhile to read properly, to kinda get it, you know.

Librería 4. Estante 1

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Chopra-La-voie-du-magicien-Transformez-votre-vie-...

> LA VOIE DU MAGICIEN, par Deepak Chopra. — Pour apprendre « l'art de se libérer de toutes les limites dont s'encombre l'esprit humain, tout en déculpant ses possibilités d'épanouissement personel ». « Cette quête initiatique nous permet, le jour venu, de transformer notre vie » …
—Luc Quintal (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)

> LA VOIE DU MAGICIEN, par Deepak Chopra. — Lu: les trois premières leçons de La Voie du magicien de Deepak Chopra (éd. Robert Laffont). On y apprend au fil de ces leçons de vie admirablement conduites à se libérer de toutes les pseudo-limites dont l’esprit humain s’encombre. Une initiation au monde de l’illimité par un des auteurs les plus populaires aux Etats-Unis. A lire sans réserve. (Josée BLANCHETTE)
—Le devoir, 31 oct. 1997 ( )

I like dense mystic stuff. This is beyond me. All I can see is someone saying just anything because it sounds mystically true and we have to buy it because, of course, it's mystic! ( )

Returning to the themes of alchemy and wizardry he introduced in "The Return of Merlin", perennially popular author Deepak Chopra here articulates a 20-step guide for discovering the wizard within and taking control of the spiritual journey of one's life. Beginning with the proclamation that the omniscient wizard is within all of us, Chopra uses an eclectic combination of Zen koan, Jungian analysis, Hindu mythology, and alchemy to lead seekers in the way of the wizard.