Author and physician Deepak Chopra delivers a powerful existential speech that will leave you amazed.
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00:00 65% of your genes are the same as a banana.
00:05 About 70% of your genes are the same as a fruit fly.
00:09 80% of your genes are the same as a mouse.
00:14 And almost 99% of the genes that you have right now in your body
00:19 are the same as a monkey.
00:21 If you take this journey to self-awareness,
00:24 if you take the journey to conscious awareness of every experience,
00:30 sensory experience, experience of your body,
00:33 experience of what's happening inside your body,
00:36 experience of relationship,
00:39 experience of the ecosystem and its connection to you,
00:44 you will find out the truth.
00:47 You are the universe looking at itself.
00:51 And where did these elements come from?
00:54 These elements were made in the crucible of burning stars
01:00 as supernova exhausted their thermonuclear energy
01:05 and burnt themselves up into the heat death of absolute zero.
01:11 So who are you?
01:13 You are a stardust being that is wondering at this moment
01:20 how you came to be.
01:23 And then life starts, hopefully,
01:26 with love and joy and attention and affection and appreciation.
01:33 All I wanted to impress upon you is the wonder of you.
01:38 Seeing that beauty compels us, literally,
01:42 obligates us to live for a cause that is bigger than ourselves.
01:49 Today we know for sure that when you experience love and compassion
01:55 and empathy and joy and equanimity,
01:59 not only do you heal yourself, but you heal others,
02:02 not by what you say, not by what you do,
02:06 but by your very presence.
02:09 Because presence is who we are.
02:12 So people ask me, "What does it mean to be spiritual?"
02:16 And the answer is astonished.
02:20 If you're not bewildered or astonished by your existence,
02:25 you've taken everything for granted.
02:27 But if you are astonished and bewildered,
02:31 and when you're totally astonished, you'll also be grateful.
02:35 And when you're grateful, you will be able to do great and wondrous things,
02:41 not only for yourself, but for all of life.
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