Quotes by Deepak Chopra (Page 2 of 5)

Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.

Go first class all the way and the universe will respond by giving you the best.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

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

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

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.

Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.

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.

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

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.

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

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

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story.

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you most wish for in yourself.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

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

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

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

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

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

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.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

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.

Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

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.

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

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.

Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.

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.