Top 1470 Quotes & Sayings by Deepak Chopra - Page 25

To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

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

Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.

Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Since we are an inextricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded, and eternal.

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

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.

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

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical.

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.

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

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

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.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.