Deepak Chopra Quotes

Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

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

Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.

Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.

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

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

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

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

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.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

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

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.

Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

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

Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

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.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps in creativity. When you set a one-pointed intention and absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to dissipate the focused quality of your attention, you engage the infinite organizing power of the universe.

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.

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.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

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.

The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.

Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

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

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

My true self contains every possibility.

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.

What is, is simply what is. Allow it and rejoice in it.

It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.