Deepak Chopra’s

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

When ancient peoples considered the vastness of the universe, they felt something very surprising, they felt connected, a spiritual connection cannot be seen or touched, yet we have a way to verify invisible things by using a faculty more powerful and reliable than the five senses—consciousness.

Only if you are aware that something is real can it become real. Awareness tells you that you are alive, that you think and breathe. It tells you if you are happy or sad, and also if you are succeeding in fulfilling your life. Everything that is alive is an example of the elegant expression of nature’s intelligence and this intelligence operates through what I call the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.

How they operate is a mystery as deep as spirit itself. Achieving success in nature is governed by the same laws that govern all of nature. When we put ourselves in harmony with nature we create a bond between our own desires and the power to make those desires materialize. Anything we want can be created. True success is measured by how efficiently, how effortlessly, you have learned to co-create with the universe. Here is how the seven laws operate.

The Law of Pure Potential 

The law of pure potentiality says that your essential state, your ground state is one of infinite possibilities. The first spiritual law is the source of all creation, a place where the dreamer manifests the dream. To have anything you want, anytime you want, and with least effort, you must be grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity, freedom, evolution and also imagination. It means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. Within uncertainty you will find the freedom to create anything you want.

And when you experience uncertainty you are open to a whole range of possibilities…you are on the right path. The law of pure potential tells you that you are consciousness itself, both as it manifests in the material world and as it lies unmanifest in your being. Therefore, spirit lies at the source of all achievement in life. 

The Law of Giving and Receiving

Everything is constantly on the move in the universe. It’s the flow of energy and information. It’s the effortless movement of consciousness ultimately that results in the diversity of expression in the universe “currency,” our word for money, derives from the Latin word meaning to run or flow. Money is a symbol of constant, flowing exchange. If your intention is to hoard your money, you will stop its circulation back into your life. Instead, you have to keep energy and the free flow of ideas circulating in the world.

Every relationship is one of give and take this requires sincerity and openness. You have to be able to appreciate and to see that what comes to you isn’t something you earned but a gift that was freely given by the universe, which means by a deep awareness of what you need. In your willingness to give and receive, you keep the abundance of everything the universe has to offer circulating in your life. Abundance has material expression, but the ancient sages understood that what’s really circulating is consciousness. 

This is reflected in personal relationships. You can give someone money, but that’s not the same as relating. To relate, you give of yourself and you appreciate and value and understand someone else. Every spiritual law is about invisible bonds, but this one especially so. The duty of hospitality, which runs very deep in every traditional culture, is connected to the law of giving. The mutual exchange of appreciation and gratitude forms a bond we must preserve. If you want to be blessed with all the good things in life, learn to silently bless everyone with all the good things in life.