Deepak Chopra Quotes

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

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

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

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

The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's nothing more joyful than having a moment of creative insight and actually creating, or rather manifesting or incarnating your creative insight into actual, physical reality.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.

In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it.

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

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.

The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

I think everybody plays a role in their own aging. Some people accelerate it. Some people slow it down. Some people manage to reverse it. It all depends on how much you are invested in the hypnosis of our social condition. So if you believe that at a certain age you have to die and you become dysfunctional, then you will.

Consider that in this very moment, your body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe - and you're doing it faster than you can change your clothes.

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

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

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.

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

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy

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

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

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Use memories. Don't let memories use you.

We're not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say "we," I don't mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.

Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

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

When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

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

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

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

When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself.

I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.

There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you.

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.