Deepak Chopra Quotes

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.

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

The Soul is on a journey through cosmic time, and you can orchestrate your journey through cosmic time, when you have awakened to the bigger reality.

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

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

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

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.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

Curving back within myself I create the world around me.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

This moment is as it should be.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.

We are powerful magical beings.

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

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

What is, is simply what is. Allow it and rejoice in it.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.