Top 1470 Quotes & Sayings by Deepak Chopra - Page 3

I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

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.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

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

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.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

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.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

The universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.'

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.