Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra will respond to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives. This week, Deepak addresses a mother-son relationship in need of healing and responds to the outpouring of questions on how to manage depression. (more…)
Lesbian Considerations
I am a 30 year old female. I have basically lived until the age of 25 only being attracted to men. I had come upon a time in my life where I was not in a relationship doing a lot of yoga, and I was feeling not enlightened but more evolved than I had been before in my past. Then one night I just had a feeling or word come to me, and it was lesbian. Ever since then I have been fighting this though or idea of who I may be. I am in a relationship with a boyfriend. But I am experiencing a lot of suffering, pain and discomfort, and having trouble dealing with this. I left my path to be more spiritually evolved because what I found was scary. It is hard to be different than you had known yourself to be. It is hard to be different than your family, friends, and boyfriend know you to be. I am also trying to understand where this came from, and where all of sudden an attraction to females came from, when I had been attracted to only males before, and had relationship that were emotionally and physically satisfying. If you could shed any light on this experience, I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your help.
Daily Inspiration
Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. -Deepak Chopra
Raising a Special Needs Child
I am 30 and my wife is 29. We got married 6 years back and for first 4 years we didn’t have any child. Praying to God for a baby and medical treatment got us a baby 2 years back. We started to believe in God and became religious minded. God gave us a special needs child who is also sick a lot. We are doing our best for his treatment, my wife even shifted to Mumbai to get better treatment. Baby is improving. Sometimes I think that God is harsh on us to give us a special needs child, sometimes I think that God is kind on us so that we can at least afford to give best treatment available to the child in India. It has left me all confused why this happened, is God good and kind on us or is He just testing us, making us stronger for something worse to come. I get this mixed emotions about God all the time, please help me.
Rock & Roll Jihad: Deepak Chopra and Jim Buck
While we may not see it easily, the world is in a constant and irreversible state of change—sometimes seemingly for the better, sometimes seemingly for the worse. This is also true in the relationship between east and west. While news of new Taliban suicide bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan may not seem like the situation is changing for the better, it is on the sidelines. By “sidelines” we mean cross-cultural exchanges and explorations in areas of music and the other arts where the people—and not their governments—come together. Evidence of this change exists in our friend Salman Ahmad, a Pakistan-born Sufi Muslim rock star, who has sold more than 30 million albums with his band Junoon, which the New York Times called, “the U2 of South Asia”. Although Junoon’s line-up has changed, Salman continues to tour with his new band mates. In mid-January, Salman released his autobiography, Rock & Roll Jihad, published by Simon and Schuster, a well-written and enjoyable book which I, Deepak, had the pleasure and privilege to write the back cover notes for. (more…)