Quotes by Deepak Chopra (Page 2 of 4)

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

People don't realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

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.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

Free yourself emotionally -- to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Since the universe is in constant and dynamic exchange, we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love and anything else we want circulating in our lives.

You have all the power you could possibly need to create a new reality -- a reality of vibrant health and wellbeing.

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.

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

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

When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire.

When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

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

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.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

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

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.

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

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

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.

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

Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment,
and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle.

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

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

The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

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.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.

Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.

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.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one.

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.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.

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.

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

If you find yourself saying things like, I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses, I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity), or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.

Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the soul questions: Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

Regular exercise is one of the most powerful ways to grow younger and live longer.

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.

When you say, I have a sad heart, then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

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.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

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.

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

Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.

There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation.

Walk with those seeking truth.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

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.

The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry.

The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

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.

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

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.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

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

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

Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.

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.

Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now -- this very instant.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

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.

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary.  Your true identity has remained untouched.  You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

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.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

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

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.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

The accumulation of toxins in the body mind system accelerates aging.

The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

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

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.

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

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.

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.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

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

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

The reason why life is a sleep and dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future and not with what is.

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping -- to higher states of consciousness.

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness.

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

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.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

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.

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

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

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.

Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

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.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.

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.

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

Focus on nurturing your healthy relationships so that they are even more loving and fulfilling.

If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.

Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.

When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life.

You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.

It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential.

What has to die in your life for what you are creating to be born?

Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.

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.

If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

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.

Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.