Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
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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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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
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Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
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We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
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The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.
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It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
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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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A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
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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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Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
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I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
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I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.
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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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I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
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My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
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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.