Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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.
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
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In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.
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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.
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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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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
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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.
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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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When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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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.
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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
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I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
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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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There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.
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I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
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Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
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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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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.