Deepak Chopra Quotes

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

What comes deep comes true.

To love a person is to love their universe.

What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.

In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

You will be transformed by what you read.

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

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

98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago.

One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.

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

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of the brain, which can be reshaped by the power of your mind to bring you the world you desire. Knowing that, the obvious question arose: Why not use your mind to create the brain you want, using conscious choice?

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

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

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All sorts of complexes come from this.

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.

The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

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.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Give the needs you lack and they will be returned to you one hundred fold.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.