Deepak Chopra Quotations

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

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

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.

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. 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.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

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.

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

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.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

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.

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.

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of the body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

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.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

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.

In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

We're investing our name, enthusiasm, expertise and training.

I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.

Your soul cherishes every aspect of your life.

You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

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.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks show us how to discover the secrets to healing, love, intuition and insight.

There is a plan, and your soul knows what it is.

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

It's time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.