Deepak Chopra Quotes
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.
Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.
Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.
No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.
The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'.
Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.
Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.
It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones.
This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.
When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.
There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body.
The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.
Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.
The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.
The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.
What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.
Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.
I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.
Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.
Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.
The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.
Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.
We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.
I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.
People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.
There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.