Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
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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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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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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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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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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
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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.
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We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
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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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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
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Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
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Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
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Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
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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.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.
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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.
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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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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
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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.