Which Reality Is Real?

Your task is to make wholeness more real in your life. As long as you remain on the level where change is dominant, there is no possibility of truly becoming new.Duality maintains its operating system from moment to moment, and as long as you are plugged into it, that system seems real, workable, reliable, and self-validating.The other operating system, the one based on wholeness, works far better than the system you are used to. Wholeness is also real, workable, reliable, and self-validating.Wholeness is safe; duality isnt. Protection from external threats is permanent when there are no externals but only yourself unfolding in two worlds, inner and outer, that completely mesh.A skeptic will protest that this new operating system is only a matter of perception, and that just seeing yourself as the creator of your reality doesnt mean you are. But it does. Reality shifts as you do, and when you change your perception of being separate, the one reality responds by shifting with you.The reason everyone doesnt notice this is that the ego-based world with all its demands, pressures, drama, and excesses is highly addictive, and like any addiction it needs a daily fix as well as denial that there is any way out.By giving your allegiance to the one reality instead, you wont end the addiction immediately, but you will begin to starve it. Your ego and personality, which give you limited awareness of who you are, will be put on notice that clinging and grasping must come to an end.Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).