Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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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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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
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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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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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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
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Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
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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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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
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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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Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
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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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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 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.