Words matter. These are the best Deepak Chopra Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I’m speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I’m doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.
I like Muhammad a lot, because he’s like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it’s almost beyond our reach.
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
We’re living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don’t think of it like that.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you’re going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it’s a mode of observation.
I’ve always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
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.
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Religions take donations and don’t pay taxes.
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.
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 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.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.
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.
There is no separation between mind and body… Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It’s part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people’s potential or even enthusiasm.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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.
Preventive medicine isn’t part of a physician’s everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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