Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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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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There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
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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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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
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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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My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
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Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
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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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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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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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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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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
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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.
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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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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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I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
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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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To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
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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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Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.