Deepak Chopra Quotes

The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

It's an intelligence. It's not - you know, that's the other mistake we make, is we tend to project how we think of ourselves onto divinity. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time.

By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

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

Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

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.

How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

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

Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

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.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

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

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

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

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.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

This moment is as it should be.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.