Deepak Chopra Quotes

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

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

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.

When you're not distracted by self-image, you can only be in the state of innocence.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.

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All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

To have weakness is not to be flawed
it's to be complete.

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.

Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

~Any feeling is both mental and physical~

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

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

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

Does a world without spiritual power force us to seek distraction because underneath, we do not know the answers at all?

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.

Examine other points of view as if they were your own.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

You will never trust your intuition until you identify with it. Self-esteem enters here.

This moment is as it should be.

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

We are here to question and yearn. If we deal with our nature in a healthy way, this yearning makes us grow.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

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

Today, give somebody a response instead of a reaction.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

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

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

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

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.

I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

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

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

We are powerful magical beings.

If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

When Jesus taught that the kingdom of heaven is within, he was pointing out a path to happiness of the highest order.

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.

We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.