Deepak Chopra's Quotes

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

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

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

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.

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

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

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.

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

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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?

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

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

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

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

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.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

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

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.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

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.

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.

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 need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

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.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

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.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

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.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

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.

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.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

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.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.