Deepak Chopra is an American author who was born in India in 1946. He is a well-known and respected advocate of alternative approaches to medicine. He has written some 80 books and produced several videos that promote his philosophy on life.
After a career in conventional medicine, he became influenced by Maharishi Maresh Yogi and adopted an approach to medicine based on spirituality and consciousness. Essentially, he views the human body as a whole unit, and by treating the whole, so can a person achieve “perfect health.” He describes this state as being free from pain, disease, and the aging process.
For Chopra, the mental state of a person affects every other part of his body, including their spirit. From this, all aspects of a person’s life are influenced, including their social life, work-life, relationships, and even the environment around them.
Part of the treatments that Chopra encourages is meditation, which aims to calm the mental state of the patient. He also believes that the power of the mind can be used to correct imbalances in the body. He suggests that serious illnesses can be cured or positively affected by the power of the mind.
Chopra’s philosophy on life goes beyond just medical matters. Many of his sayings can be applied to everyday life and the pursuit of happiness. He believes that to achieve happiness – which for him is the ultimate measure of success – requires positive choices to be made, and that only when we are in the right mental state can we do that.
For him, part of the journey towards ultimate happiness is the ability to reflect, contemplate, and meditate. In other words, we should all adopt a philosophical approach to life and thus free our imaginations, creativity, and the ability to act with free will.
The promotion of self-awareness is also an aspect of Chopra’s philosophy. Self-awareness comes from the ability to make choices, and there are choices to be made throughout one’s life, and those choices often require both dynamic action and meditative relaxation. Through self-awareness, we can know that we can make those choices from an informed position.
Chopra suggests that in every person there is a calm still point. Achieving this point is done by denying our ego and avoiding the madcap pace of the world. This still point, Chopra refers to as a person’s soul. Once you are aware of the calmness within you, decision making is much easier, and you can make choices that will benefit you for years to come. How you think, behave, and even how you eat, are all decisions that can extend your life and make it happier and more fulfilled.
Deepak Chopra Quotes
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
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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.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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Don’t try to steer the river.
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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.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
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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.
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
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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.
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
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The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
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Walk with those seeking truth… RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY’VE FOUND IT.
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I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.
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When you make a choice, you change the future.
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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
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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.
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Love doesn’t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
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Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
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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.
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If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
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In every conversation I’ve had – with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums – everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma – that what you’re putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
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There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.
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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.
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Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
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Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
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If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.
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The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.
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Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
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Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
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If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.
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Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
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Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.
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You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
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To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.
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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.
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People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.
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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.
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Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
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The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
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New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.
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When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow,” said Buddha.
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There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.’
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What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.
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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.
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The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.
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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.
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The healthiest response to life is joy.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn’t scary. It doesn’t imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
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People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.
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There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.
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Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
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You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
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Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.
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At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
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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.
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
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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.
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
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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.
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We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
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Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it… every step of the way is mind over matter… We override our brains all the time.
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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
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Deepak Chopra urges us all to work towards a world without violence. He feels we should avoid violence in our personal lives as well as between nations. By creating a world where everyone is valued and productive, people will live longer and be happier. Among the Deepak Chopra quotes listed here, many will make you think, and perhaps help you to behave more reflectively.