Deepak Chopra Quotes

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

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.

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.

Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

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

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher Self carry them out, believe that you are enough in and of yourself, heed the tenderness and sweetness of your love for others, put your attention on positive energies in every situation, honor your own needs without having to seek outside approval, and cultivate the peace of inner silence.

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.

True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.

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?

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

Love is a way of living, and not something that you give.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

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.

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.

To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And 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, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.

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.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.