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special way to grow in • Self-Importance
the right direction. To be Chopra has introduced self-
dominant on the soul, importance as the biggest obstacle
with all the benefits it to perfection and progress, and
has for our health, means he says artists start their
allowing the infinite paintings and music on a white
consciousness of mind canvas or paper; they go
and body to work together inside, and an image emerges
more, and this is what that, although it is weak in the
we are willing to do”. beginning, is growing. This
(Chopra, 2005a: 145) image causes a desire to be
born. If the inspiration is
Obstacles to Spiritual Perfection genuine, it will never die, and
1. Obstacles to Spiritual creator and creation come together,
Perfection, according to which is called imagination,
Chopra which is better than a beautiful
Non-religious spirituality, except idea the human tends to perform.
the ways to achieve spiritual He points to Hemingway to
perfection, has also mentioned explain that self-importance is
obstacles to achieving it. Chopra, an obstacle to progress because,
in “How to Know God?” after his fame, his works were
dedicates an important chapter reduced to the level of ordinary
to the concepts and knowledge efforts and struggles. In the
of God in 7 stages and in each process of becoming spiritual,
stage expresses the obstacles there is a risk of losing
to reaching God according to connection for people who are
the same stage: still immersed in self-importance.
Human has no choice but to
