Deepak Chopra Quotes And Sayings

Meditation Makes The Entire Nervous System Go Into A Field Of Coherence.

The Way You Think, The Way You Behave, The Way You Eat, Can Influence Your Life By 30 To 50 Years.

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.

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.

To Think Is To Practice Brain Chemistry.

The Greatest Mystery Of Existence Is Existence Itself.

Nothing Is More Important Than Reconnecting With Your Bliss. Nothing Is As Rich. Nothing Is More Real.

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.

Self-awareness Is Value-free. It Isn't Scary. It Doesn't Imply That You Will Subject Yourself To Needless Pain.

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.

You Can't Make Positive Choices For The Rest Of Your Life Without An Environment That Makes Those Choices Easy, Natural, And Enjoyable.

Victims Always Feel Alone And Helpless.

We All Feel The Urge To Condemn Ourselves Out Of Guilt, To Blame Others For Our Misfortunes And To Fantasize About Total Disaster.

The Symbolic Language Of The Crucifixion Is The Death Of The Old Paradigm; Resurrection Is A Leap Into A Whole New Way Of Thinking.

Mature Workers Are Less Impulsive, Less Reactive, More Creative And More Centered.

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.

So The Universe Is Constantly Moving In The Direction Of Higher Evolutionary Impulses, Creativity, Abstraction, And Meaning.

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.

Our Most Important Task Is To Transform Our Consciousness So That Violence Is No Longer An Option For Us In Our Personal Lives, That Understanding That A World Of Peace Is Possible Only If We Relate To Each Other As Peaceful Beings, One Individual At A Time.

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.

The Masculine Energy Was About Survival. The Male Was The Hunter Who Risked His Life And Had To Be In The Fight-flight Mode.

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.

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.

Wealth Is The Progressive Realization Of Worthy Goals, The Ability To Love And Have Compassion, Meaningful And Caring Relationships.

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.

People Think Meditation Is A Huge Undertaking. Don't Think Of It Like That.

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.

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.

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.

Always Go With Your Passions. Never Ask Yourself If It's Realistic Or Not.

New Age Values Are Conscious Evolution, A Non-sectarian Society, A Non-military Culture, Global Sharing, Healing The Environment, Sustainable Economies, Self-determination, Social Justice, Economic Empowerment Of The Poor, Love, Compassion In Action, Going Beyond Religious Fundamentalism, Going Beyond Nationalism-extreme Nationalism, Culture.

We Can Actually Accelerate The Process Through Meditation, Through The Ability To Find Stillness Through Loving Actions, Through Compassion And Sharing, Through Understanding The Nature Of The Creative Process In The Universe And Having A Sense Of Connection To It. So, That's Conscious Evolution.

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.

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.

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.

For Thousands Of Years, Human Beings Have Been Obsessed With Beauty, Truth, Love, Honor, Altruism, Courage, Social Relationships, Art, And God. They All Go Together As Subjective Experiences, And It's A Straw Man To Set God Up As The Delusion. If He Is, Then So Is Truth Itself Or Beauty Itself.

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.

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.

But The Real Secret To Lifelong Good Health Is Actually The Opposite: Let Your Body Take Care Of You.

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.

We Must Go Beyond The Constant Clamor Of Ego, Beyond The Tools Of Logic And Reason, To The Still, Calm Place Within Us: The Realm Of The Soul.

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 Only In Space Time And Causality. Your Real Self Resides Non-locally.

Before A Brain Can Register A Thought, A Mind Must Think It... Every Step Of The Way Is Mind Over Matter... We Override Our Brains All The Time.

Muhammad Is More Human, More Self-doubting, Even Self-tortured At Times. His Story Is Full Of Adventure, Intrigue, Betrayal.

Human Beings Place Their Desires Ahead Of The Collective Good.

Seeking Can Become Stressful When You Apply The Same Laws That You Apply In The Material World - Hard Work, Exacting Plans, Driving Ambition, And Attachment To Outcome.

Perceptual Reality Is Different For Different Species. In Certain Species It Is A Mode Of Observation, So What We Call Scientific Fact Is Actually Not Ultimate Truth, It Is Perceptual Experience, And It's A Mode Of Observation.

I Dislike The Word 'Self-help.' Self-awareness, Yes, But Not Self-help.

It Is The Nature Of Babies To Be In Bliss.