Deepak Chopra is an American public speaker, author, and alternative medicine advocate. He is an advocate of Ayurveda, meditation, and spirituality and is also the founder of the Chopra Foundation. He has written over 85 books and has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Deepak Chopra on meditation, healing, relationships.
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You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. — Deepak Chopra
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. — Deepak Chopra
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Meditation
Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that. — Deepak Chopra
Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body. — Deepak Chopra
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. — Deepak Chopra
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations. — Deepak Chopra
Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process. — Deepak Chopra
Sleep and meditation are key. Natural sleep for 8 hours will help remove toxins from the body, help consolidate memory, create order from chaos. Sleep activates good hormones that are associated with rejuvenation and slowing down the ageing process. — Deepak Chopra
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed. — Deepak Chopra
I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing. — Deepak Chopra
In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age. — Deepak Chopra
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual. — Deepak Chopra
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Deepak Chopra Quotes About Healing
I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center. — Deepak Chopra
If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap. — Deepak Chopra
No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature. — Deepak Chopra
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances. — Deepak Chopra
Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness. — Deepak Chopra
Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur. — Deepak Chopra
Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing. — Deepak Chopra
The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world. — Deepak Chopra
Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing. — Deepak Chopra
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Relationships
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. — Deepak Chopra
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. — Deepak Chopra
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom. — Deepak Chopra
Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions. — Deepak Chopra
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. — Deepak Chopra
What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. — Deepak Chopra
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives. — Deepak Chopra
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. — Deepak Chopra
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Consciousness
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. — Deepak Chopra
The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world. — Deepak Chopra
An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process. — Deepak Chopra
Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire. — Deepak Chopra
Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world. — Deepak Chopra
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. — Deepak Chopra
Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself. — Deepak Chopra
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra
The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge. — Deepak Chopra
Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Fear
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. — Deepak Chopra
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. — Deepak Chopra
There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose. — Deepak Chopra
Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra
Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. — Deepak Chopra
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return. — Deepak Chopra
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older. — Deepak Chopra
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra
We want lifelong good health and an end to fearing the aging process. By combining the fruits of modern neuroscience and timeless wisdom, you can achieve those goals. That is what your brain is designed for. The key is realizing that you are the user of your brain. — Deepak Chopra
Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Health
It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life. — Deepak Chopra
Foods that are deep blue, purple, red, green, or orange are leaders in antioxidants and contain many nutrients that boost immunity and enhance health. — Deepak Chopra
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations. — Deepak Chopra
Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause. — Deepak Chopra
If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with. — Deepak Chopra
You have all the power you could possibly need to create a new reality - a reality of vibrant health and wellbeing. — Deepak Chopra
When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing. — Deepak Chopra
Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined. — Deepak Chopra
People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality. — Deepak Chopra
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Self Love
Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire. — Deepak Chopra
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. — Deepak Chopra
If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it. — Deepak Chopra
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self. — Deepak Chopra
Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy — Deepak Chopra
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given. — Deepak Chopra
Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun. — Deepak Chopra
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. — Deepak Chopra
Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself. — Deepak Chopra
To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Gratitude
Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. — Deepak Chopra
The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life. — Deepak Chopra
Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul. — Deepak Chopra
My Intent today is to expand the flow of abundance through the energy of gratitude. — Deepak Chopra
One loving thought can change everything. — Deepak Chopra
You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time. — Deepak Chopra
Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Happiness
The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy. — Deepak Chopra
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see. — Deepak Chopra
Being joyful is our natural state of being. — Deepak Chopra
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you. — Deepak Chopra
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success. — Deepak Chopra
At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material world, into a bit of matter so perfectly attuned to your desire that literally every cell in your body learns of your happiness and joins in. — Deepak Chopra
Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever. — Deepak Chopra
A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf. — Deepak Chopra
The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Love
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment. — Deepak Chopra
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. — Deepak Chopra
In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself — Deepak Chopra
The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature. — Deepak Chopra
The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE — Deepak Chopra
Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow. — Deepak Chopra
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. — Deepak Chopra
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries. — Deepak Chopra
The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. — Deepak Chopra
It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Inspiring
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
All great changes are preceded by chaos. — Deepak Chopra
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. — Deepak Chopra
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away. — Deepak Chopra
Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. — Deepak Chopra
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you. — Deepak Chopra
You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself. — Deepak Chopra
To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless. — Deepak Chopra
Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean. — Deepak Chopra
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Transformative
The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever. — Deepak Chopra
This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation. — Deepak Chopra
Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. — Deepak Chopra
Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation. — Deepak Chopra
Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another. — Deepak Chopra
There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself? — Deepak Chopra
There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation. — Deepak Chopra
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. — Deepak Chopra
Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed. — Deepak Chopra
Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Enlightening
When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint. — Deepak Chopra
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. — Deepak Chopra
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one. — Deepak Chopra
I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Life
Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. — Deepak Chopra
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life. — Deepak Chopra
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. — Deepak Chopra
In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome. — Deepak Chopra
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. — Deepak Chopra
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. — Deepak Chopra
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About People
I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues. — Deepak Chopra
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. — Deepak Chopra
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life. — Deepak Chopra
What people think of you is none of your business. — Deepak Chopra
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. — Deepak Chopra
What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life. — Deepak Chopra
It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves. — Deepak Chopra
Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences — Deepak Chopra
If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach. — Deepak Chopra
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About World
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. — Deepak Chopra
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. — Deepak Chopra
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free. — Deepak Chopra
The world is more than the sum of its suffering. — Deepak Chopra
At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover. — Deepak Chopra
When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world. — Deepak Chopra
Take some time each day to bring clarity to your inner world. — Deepak Chopra
Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in. — Deepak Chopra
The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes About Awareness
Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here. — Deepak Chopra
Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree. — Deepak Chopra
Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness. — Deepak Chopra
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense. — Deepak Chopra
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. — Deepak Chopra
When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose. — Deepak Chopra
Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness. — Deepak Chopra
What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness. — Deepak Chopra
I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation. — Deepak Chopra
It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Famous Quotes And Sayings
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. — Deepak Chopra
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. — Deepak Chopra
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better. — Deepak Chopra
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. — Deepak Chopra
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. — Deepak Chopra
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are — Deepak Chopra
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. — Deepak Chopra
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation. — Deepak Chopra
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving. — Deepak Chopra
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. — Deepak Chopra
Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep. — Deepak Chopra
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. — Deepak Chopra
The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. — Deepak Chopra
The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything. — Deepak Chopra
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. — Deepak Chopra
Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second. — Deepak Chopra
If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed. — Deepak Chopra
Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles. — Deepak Chopra
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. — Deepak Chopra
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. — Deepak Chopra
You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance. — Deepak Chopra
To think is to practice brain chemistry. — Deepak Chopra
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects. — Deepak Chopra
I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends. — Deepak Chopra
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit. — Deepak Chopra
Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available. — Deepak Chopra
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal. — Deepak Chopra
Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear. — Deepak Chopra
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. — Deepak Chopra
Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. — Deepak Chopra
Life Lessons by Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra encourages people to focus on the present moment and practice mindfulness to live a more peaceful and meaningful life.
He emphasizes the importance of living with intention and taking responsibility for our own happiness.
He also encourages us to be compassionate and understanding of others, and to strive to make a positive difference in the world.
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